{"id":2777,"date":"2016-09-23T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2016-09-17T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T20:36:31","slug":"laura-sweeney-home-was-not-a-norman-rockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"Laura Sweeney: &#8220;Home Was Not a Norman Rockwell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"tx\">Laura Sweeney<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Home Was Not a Norman Rockwell<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"tx\">God is great, God is good,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">and I thanked Him for my food,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">my mother to my left, my father to my right,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">as we sat around the table<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">by\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx f43\">the portrait of the Lord\u2019s Supper<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">before grace shattered like the glass door<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">I ran through in Sunday school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"tx\">Laura Sweeney<\/span><\/strong><em><span class=\"tx\"> facilitates Writers for Life in central Iowa, is an MFA candidate at McNeese\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">State University in Lake Charles, LA, and is a reader for <\/span><\/em><span class=\"tx\">Eastern Iowa Review.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Sweeney Home Was Not a Norman Rockwell God is great, God is good, and I thanked Him for my food, my mother to my left, my father to my right, as we sat around the table by\u00a0the portrait of the Lord\u2019s Supper before grace shattered like the glass door I ran through in Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[315],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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