{"id":3783,"date":"2023-11-27T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=3783"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:50:31","slug":"the-cookie-jar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/creative-nonfiction-archive\/the-cookie-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cookie Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span data-testid=\"drawerify-title\">The Cookie Jar<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kat Abdallah<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I didn\u2019t keep the cookie jar. I left it in the pile of donations by the TV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right after I moved, Baba took the donations to Goodwill. I thought that by the time I went back to visit in October, the piles would still be sitting there, and my heart would\u2019ve softened towards you. We\u2019d sort everything out and be friends again. I would apologize like I always do, and you would receive the apology that you owed me. I thought I\u2019d save the cookie jar from donations and bring it back with me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, the cookie jar is gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4067\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Abdallah\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-690x462.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0394-390x261.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Kat Abdallah<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American writer, educator, and advocate for refugees, and she\u00a0is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing. In her free time, Kat is a storyteller in community theatre and competitive cosplay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cookie Jar Kat Abdallah &nbsp; I didn\u2019t keep the cookie jar. I left it in the pile of donations by the TV.\u00a0 Right after I moved, Baba took the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/creative-nonfiction-archive\/the-cookie-jar\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"parent":1310,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3783\/revisions\/4549"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}