{"id":241,"date":"2020-04-30T02:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:07:22","slug":"new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Gabriel Miranda<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, take me down to New Orleans\u00a0<br>To live life to the beat\u00a0<br>Sing my blues in purples and greens\u00a0<br>Get lost in strangers\u2019 sheets\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll swing up on the chandelier\u00a0<br>Come shower me in beads\u00a0<br>Forget about a sad career\u00a0<br>And learn to live life freed\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to feel vibrant and full\u00a0<br>Glow in the summer heat\u00a0<br>Joy of the heart and warmth of soul\u00a0<br>Shit-faced on Bourbon street\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lose me there, in\u00a0ol\u2019 New Orleans\u00a0<br>For I would love to die alive\u00a0<br>Cast me in to the fantasy\u00a0<br>Of the chaotic and sublime\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gabriel Miranda Oh, take me down to New Orleans\u00a0To live life to the beat\u00a0Sing my blues in purples and greens\u00a0Get lost in strangers\u2019 sheets\u00a0 I\u2019ll swing up on the chandelier\u00a0Come shower me in beads\u00a0Forget about a sad career\u00a0And learn to live life freed\u00a0 I want to feel vibrant and full\u00a0Glow in the summer heat\u00a0Joy&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/new-orleans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Orleans<\/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-241","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"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=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}