{"id":277,"date":"2020-04-30T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:10:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:10:39","slug":"the-forgiving-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/the-forgiving-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgiving Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Victoria Puffer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I am not empty\u00a0<br>I never have been\u00a0<br>I never will be\u00a0<br>My blood, my bones\u00a0<br>Even the hollow space in my lungs is occupied by air\u00a0<br>Wind I can control\u00a0<br>To sing\u00a0<br>To play instruments\u00a0<br>To say \u201cI love you\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">When I die, which I will,\u00a0<br>I will go back to the ground\u00a0<br>The ground will eat everything I have ever been\u00a0<br>The good\u00a0\u00a0<br>The bad\u00a0<br>The selfish\u00a0<br>The lazy\u00a0<br>The loving\u00a0<br>Earth will reclaim me\u00a0<br>And make me something new\u00a0<br>Something beautiful\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Victoria Puffer I am not empty\u00a0I never have been\u00a0I never will be\u00a0My blood, my bones\u00a0Even the hollow space in my lungs is occupied by air\u00a0Wind I can control\u00a0To sing\u00a0To play instruments\u00a0To say \u201cI love you\u201d\u00a0 When I die, which I will,\u00a0I will go back to the ground\u00a0The ground will eat everything I have ever&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/the-forgiving-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Forgiving Nature<\/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-277","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"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=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}