{"id":68,"date":"2019-11-20T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-1\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2019-12-06T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T21:43:52","slug":"bonfire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/bonfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>by Holly Day<\/h5>\n<p>flames flicker like flowers<br>unfurling their petals at dawn. I stand on the sand<br>fingers dripping with pollen from trying<br>to pry the petals apart, from reaching in to stoke<br>trembling anthers.<\/p><br>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">driftwood shudders beneath the heat<br>resisting involuntary impregnation.<br>wharf rats scuttle off in fear of me<br>my experiments in eugenics<br>as more flames take root, cast long<br>fearful shadows along the concrete spillway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Holly Day flames flicker like flowersunfurling their petals at dawn. I stand on the sandfingers dripping with pollen from tryingto pry the petals apart, from reaching in to stoketrembling anthers. driftwood shudders beneath the heatresisting involuntary impregnation.wharf rats scuttle off in fear of memy experiments in eugenicsas more flames take root, cast longfearful shadows <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/bonfire\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}