{"id":250,"date":"2020-04-30T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:05:25","slug":"escape","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Corynne Nuckols<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve a separate person in my head\u00a0<br>Screaming thru the cacophony of sounds\u00a0<br>Trying to tell me I&#8217;m capable\u00a0<br>Trying to tell me I&#8217;m strong\u00a0<br>Trying to be the loudest\u00a0<br>Trying to be heard\u00a0<br>Voices in the whirlwinds from my past\u00a0<br>Loud too, hoping to hold me back\u00a0<br>Telling me to stop\u00a0<br>Telling me I&#8217;ll fail\u00a0<br>Telling me no one cares\u00a0<br>Telling me I&#8217;m not good enough\u00a0<br>My brain is on fire\u00a0<br>Itching, burning as I try to break free\u00a0<br>Tantalizing ideas sprout\u00a0<br>Tantalizing abilities evolve\u00a0<br>Tantalizing feelings emerge\u00a0<br>Tantalizing voice strengthens\u00a0<br>A single personality clawing its way out\u00a0<br>Real me striving to become dominant\u00a0<br>Tenaciously drowning discordant noise\u00a0<br>Tenaciously clawing its way to the top\u00a0<br>Tenaciously driving towards freedom\u00a0<br>Tenaciously trying to escape.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Corynne Nuckols I&#8217;ve a separate person in my head\u00a0Screaming thru the cacophony of sounds\u00a0Trying to tell me I&#8217;m capable\u00a0Trying to tell me I&#8217;m strong\u00a0Trying to be the loudest\u00a0Trying to be heard\u00a0Voices in the whirlwinds from my past\u00a0Loud too, hoping to hold me back\u00a0Telling me to stop\u00a0Telling me I&#8217;ll fail\u00a0Telling me no one cares\u00a0Telling me&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/escape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Escape<\/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-250","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"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=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}