{"id":255,"date":"2018-04-18T00:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/13-2\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2018-09-15T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T20:44:09","slug":"high-regard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/high-regard\/","title":{"rendered":"High Regard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>John Genson  (<a style=\"font-size: small;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bhrf7DOHf6B\/?taken-by=euphemismisu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bio<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<p>Emptiness never sleeps at Clifton\u2019s 6 a.m. The city of stars, full of broken wings.<\/p>\n<p>A man is weeping, tears dribbling into his glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019re ya havin?\u201d a woman asks.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s name is Marvin. He raises the glass, winks at the woman, and devours the tear-filled beverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis next cry is on me,\u201d she says to the bartender.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s name is Loretta. She sits next to Marvin, placing her hands on the bar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDark outside,\u201d Marvin says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t stay that way.\u201d Loretta pulls a cigarette from her purse, keeping her gaze on the wall of fifths lining the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you go home with me?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t really want that.\u201d Her voice sounds firm, but monotone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, do you?\u201d She says looking into her miniature mirror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess not.\u201d Marvin averts his vision back to the short glass.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin wants the crying to continue, but his eyes are drier than a bundle of biscuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you going to ask me why I\u2019ve been like this?\u201d Marvin turns to Loretta, finding her, meeting her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I don\u2019t much care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marvin polishes the new glass, leaving remnants of whiskey in his stubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll have another,\u201d Loretta says to the bartender.<\/p>\n<p>The bartender pours, Marvin drinks, and Loretta orders.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin\u2019s eyes, even drier, looks at the bartender as the fountain continues to spew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis woman must really like you,\u201d the bartender says to Marvin, stepping away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Genson (Bio) Emptiness never sleeps at Clifton\u2019s 6 a.m. The city of stars, full of broken wings. A man is weeping, tears dribbling into his glass. \u201cWhat\u2019re ya havin?\u201d a woman asks. The man\u2019s name is Marvin. He raises the glass, winks at the woman, and devours the tear-filled beverage. \u201cHis next cry is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/high-regard\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}