{"id":239,"date":"2020-04-30T02:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:09:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:09:56","slug":"portrait","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Gabriel Miranda<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paint me drunk in a rainstorm\u00a0<br>Soaking wet and dripping sunshine\u00a0<br>Flying over the pavement\u00a0<br>Above the puddles, streets and towns\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll be up high in a sky of clouds\u00a0<br>Twirling around with glee\u00a0<br>Paint me as the summertime\u00a0<br>Glowing, radiating, and proud\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wind blasts in my face\u00a0<br>With only spirits to keep warm\u00a0<br>Numb to the cold feeling\u00a0<br>Blind to the dark, and deaf to all sound\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truly in the heavens\u00a0<br>A dumb feather lost\u00a0<br>On an endless plain of blue and grey\u00a0<br>Lose me in the clouds, never to be found\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drown me up there, in the air\u00a0<br>In the ocean in the sky\u00a0<br>I want to spin eternally\u00a0<br>Freed from the solid ground\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paint me drunk in a rainstorm\u00a0<br>Soaking wet and dripping sunshine\u00a0<br>And when I vanish over the horizon\u00a0<br>Know that I\u2019m never coming down\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gabriel Miranda Paint me drunk in a rainstorm\u00a0Soaking wet and dripping sunshine\u00a0Flying over the pavement\u00a0Above the puddles, streets and towns\u00a0 I\u2019ll be up high in a sky of clouds\u00a0Twirling around with glee\u00a0Paint me as the summertime\u00a0Glowing, radiating, and proud\u00a0 Wind blasts in my face\u00a0With only spirits to keep warm\u00a0Numb to the cold feeling\u00a0Blind to&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/portrait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portrait<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-239","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}