{"id":269,"date":"2018-11-29T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/14-1\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:21:20","slug":"amateurs-foresight-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/amateurs-foresight-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Foresight I"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left\">Michael Spell<\/h4>\n<p>A crystal ball<br \/>\nbreaks even,<br \/>\nbinding blind bucks,<br \/>\nand proposes self-fulfilling prophecies<br \/>\nthat were never truthable<br \/>\nin the first place.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the pine-cone-clad sasquatch<br \/>\nquietly,<br \/>\ncalmly,<br \/>\nallegedly<br \/>\nin the bushes.<br \/>\nA piranha\u2019s jaw,<br \/>\npried open;<br \/>\nI know,<br \/>\nyou wish you could peek in<br \/>\nand see what\u2019s chosen.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s watching<br \/>\nyour idols idle<br \/>\nwith that far-out betweenness<br \/>\nand they\u2019re waiting,<br \/>\ncross-eyed and painless<br \/>\nfor you to show up<br \/>\nand you\u2019ve got a private jet<br \/>\nbut you can\u2019t check the gas beforehand<br \/>\nand you can already see<br \/>\nGod\u2019s turbulence<br \/>\nall the way from campus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that<br \/>\nbastard eight ball<br \/>\nthat told you<br \/>\nyes<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.6rem\">like clockwork<br \/>\n<\/span>for the past three years<br \/>\nthat just now<br \/>\n73 minutes ago<br \/>\nnearly bursted<br \/>\nfour eyes<br \/>\nworth of rods and cones<br \/>\ntelling you<br \/>\n\u201cBrace yourself!<br \/>\nNot for what you will see,<br \/>\nbut for what you won\u2019t see!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Spell A crystal ball breaks even, binding blind bucks, and proposes self-fulfilling prophecies that were never truthable in the first place. It\u2019s the pine-cone-clad sasquatch quietly, calmly, allegedly in the bushes. A piranha\u2019s jaw, pried open; I know, you wish you could peek in and see what\u2019s chosen. It\u2019s watching your idols idle with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/amateurs-foresight-i\/\">Continue Reading Amateur Foresight I<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}