{"id":325,"date":"2020-04-30T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:28:19","slug":"those-green-eyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/those-green-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Green Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Brandie Lorenzen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t help but fall,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fall hard because I feel I\u2019ve met the one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t be crazy, I only knew him a night,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Yet, I fell pretty hard. His green eyes, or they were blue,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t undo that now, it\u2019s been thought through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t remember but his eyes reminded me of the forests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or even the northern lights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His eyes were for sure green. They were as green as the leaves,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which hung from every tree that my eyes could see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His eyes were piercing, and his smile ruined it for me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt weak, underneath his gaze.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I could see them again, I may fall to my knees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those green eyes will never leave my mind,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re an imprint that will remain,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like a signature written in ink on a dotted line,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His eyes will forever remain in the back of my mind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Brandie Lorenzen I can\u2019t help but fall,&nbsp; Fall hard because I feel I\u2019ve met the one.&nbsp; I can\u2019t be crazy, I only knew him a night,&nbsp; &nbsp;Yet, I fell pretty hard. His green eyes, or they were blue,&nbsp; I can\u2019t undo that now, it\u2019s been thought through.&nbsp; I can\u2019t remember but his eyes reminded&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/those-green-eyes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Those Green Eyes<\/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-325","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/337"}],"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=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}