{"id":172,"date":"2018-04-18T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/13-2\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2018-09-15T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:54:31","slug":"we-passengers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/we-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"we passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Michael Quigg <a style=\"font-size: small;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BiH6P2WHWVx\/?taken-by=euphemismisu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Bio)<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>it was a forest with not enough trees.<br \/>\nit was a dream on an old carriage.<br \/>\ndo you remember the autumn sleep?<br \/>\nthe sky was purple and the grass was black<br \/>\nthe setting of a nightmare, at first glance.<br \/>\nhow should i have known?<br \/>\nbut your face, so pale and tinted by a grin,<br \/>\npromised a breezy flight over gravel road<br \/>\nthat splits the woods in two.<\/p>\n<p>like broken spirals, we passengers dance with every bump.<br \/>\ncracked wood and creaky wheels<br \/>\nand the sky was purple and the moon was bright.<br \/>\ni was laughing and cheering with the others.<br \/>\ni think you were laughing too.<\/p>\n<p>we were side by side.<br \/>\nwe were not together.<\/p>\n<p>the choir sensed the swelling and matched our speed.<br \/>\nyou planted a kiss, thinner than washi, on my cheek.<br \/>\ni was silenced by your smile, and had not realized<br \/>\nthat the cart had stopped in time and we were flying<br \/>\ndissonant, but happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Quigg (Bio) it was a forest with not enough trees. it was a dream on an old carriage. do you remember the autumn sleep? the sky was purple and the grass was black the setting of a nightmare, at first glance. how should i have known? but your face, so pale and tinted by <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/we-passengers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}