{"id":376,"date":"2018-11-29T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/14-1\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2018-11-29T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:30:19","slug":"a-happy-chicago-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/a-happy-chicago-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A happy Chicago poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Naudia Williams<\/h3>\n<p>We footwork<br \/>\nIn basements<br \/>\nDitches or after doing dishes<\/p>\n<p>We bounce<br \/>\nand break backs\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>like chiropractic<br \/>\nTo break death by its casket<\/p>\n<p>We bop\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>until legs<span><br \/>\n<\/span>go numb<span><br \/>\n<\/span>or until\u00a0harolds\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>or uncle Remus\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>run out of mild sauce<\/p>\n<p>We juke\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>until we can afford\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>another bus card<br \/>\nUntil\u00a0cta\u00a0stop being so\u00a0fu<\/p>\n<p>We dive\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>into deep dish\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>like the last supper\u00a0<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Praying\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>on bended<span><br \/>\n<\/span>concrete and potholes<\/p>\n<p>We pray\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>like the bulls\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>are\u00a0gonna\u00a0finally win\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>a championship<br \/>\nOr until chance<span><br \/>\n<\/span>wins a 4th Grammy<\/p>\n<p>We laugh\u00a0<span><br \/>\n<\/span>like Kanye\u00a0gon\u2019<span><br \/>\n<\/span>come back<br \/>\nAnd sit at the feet<span><br \/>\n<\/span>of\u00a0dondas\u00a0house<\/p>\n<p>Like we\u00a0ain&#8217;t\u00a0all broke-broke phi broke we\u00a0ain&#8217;t\u00a0got it<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naudia Williams We footwork In basements Ditches or after doing dishes We bounce and break backs\u00a0 like chiropractic To break death by its casket We bop\u00a0 until legs go numb or until\u00a0harolds\u00a0 or uncle Remus\u00a0 run out of mild sauce We juke\u00a0 until we can afford\u00a0 another bus card Until\u00a0cta\u00a0stop being so\u00a0fu We dive\u00a0 into&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/a-happy-chicago-poem\/\">Continue Reading A happy Chicago poem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}