{"id":289,"date":"2020-04-30T03:36:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:09:31","slug":"two-cream-three-sugar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/two-cream-three-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"two cream three sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Nick Roberts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">saturday\u00a0morning probably 2010 or some shit\u00a0<br>wake up early get dressed some fuckin name brand shirt &amp; matching jacket most likely\u00a0\u00a0<br>too small too tight on my chest but that\u2019s how\u00a0i\u00a0liked to wear it for some reason\u00a0<br>waking up early seems absolutely ridiculous now but waking up early then meant\u00a0<br>going to breakfast with my dad &amp; sister\u00a0<br>i\u00a0don\u2019t remember much but\u00a0i\u00a0do remember \u201calaskan\u00a0waffles\u201d big fluffy waffles with\u00a0<br>fruit &amp; ice cream &amp; syrup makes me sick to think now but then\u00a0i\u2019d\u00a0eat the whole thing &amp;\u00a0<br>not think anything of it waking up early meant needing coffee &amp;\u00a0i\u00a0went through this phase when\u00a0i\u00a0<br>first started drinking it where\u00a0i\u00a0absolutely hated it but\u00a0i\u00a0\u00a0<br>drank it because it was cool to drink it\u00a0it\u00a0was cool like my dad because back<br>then my dad\u00a0<em>was cool\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<br>i\u00a0remember not even knowing how to drink it properly how much sugar &amp; cream to put in\u00a0i\u2019d\u00a0<br>turn the whole thing whiter than the snow outside in the bed of the truck but my dad was so\u00a0<em>cool\u00a0<\/em>&amp;\u00a0<br>taught me to put two cream three sugar in every cup &amp; stir with a spoon not a stirrer for some reason\u00a0<br>it would be like six am on a\u00a0sunday\u00a0morning in\u00a0december\u00a0&amp; my dad<br>&amp;\u00a0i\u00a0would be drinking coffee together something\u00a0i\u00a0can still do today but now\u00a0i\u00a0\u00a0<br>still drink cream with two cream three sugar but everyone is a stranger just like strangers\u00a0\u00a0<br>sitting at the bar in the restaurant eating their omelets &amp;\u00a0hashbrowns\u00a0but<br>instead\u00a0i\u00a0<br>fucking cooked them their\u00a0hashbrowns\u00a0&amp; no one said thank you so now\u00a0i\u00a0<br>sit in the booth alone stirring my coffee with\u00a0<br>two cream &amp;\u00a0 three fucking\u00a0\u00a0<br>sugar\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nick Roberts saturday\u00a0morning probably 2010 or some shit\u00a0wake up early get dressed some fuckin name brand shirt &amp; matching jacket most likely\u00a0\u00a0too small too tight on my chest but that\u2019s how\u00a0i\u00a0liked to wear it for some reason\u00a0waking up early seems absolutely ridiculous now but waking up early then meant\u00a0going to breakfast with my dad&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/two-cream-three-sugar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">two cream three sugar<\/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-289","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"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=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}