I hadn’t, but I fell in love just looking at the cover. Aside from the potato plants in the foreground, it looks exactly like the part of Idaho where I grew up. (Believe it or not, I never actually saw a potato field until I moved to southern Idaho to go to college.)<\/p>\n Earlier this week I got a package in the mail, and it was my very own copy of P is for Potato<\/em>, sent, of course, by Ellen. I’m so happy to have it and I’m very much looking forward to sharing with my children the glory that is Idaho. I worry sometimes that they’ll grow up without any sense of where I come from, so I treasure the things that will help me help them discover and connect with my personal history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh! What with all the puking and moaning I forgot to write about another terrific present I got from yet another terrific friend! A few weeks ago I wrote a post about feeling homesick, and Ellen asked if I’d seen this book: I hadn’t, but I fell in love just looking at the cover. Aside… Read More Spuds for you, spuds for me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/pforpotato.jpg\")
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