{"id":585,"date":"2020-05-01T01:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2020-05-01T01:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:50:28","slug":"french-toast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/french-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"french toast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Nick Roberts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">christmas\u00a0mornings in the 2000\u2019s meant\u00a0<br>waking up with my sister &amp;\u00a0<br>going to open presents it was so\u00a0\u00a0<br>simple back then &amp; my dad would\u00a0<br>make\u00a0french\u00a0toast\u00a0<br>i\u00a0look back on photos in books full of\u00a0\u00a0<br>jumping in leaf piles birthdays with\u00a0<br>pumpkin pie instead of cake me\u00a0<br>holding my sister going down waterslides that one time\u00a0i\u00a0<br>flipped off the tube &amp; sunk down to the\u00a0\u00a0<br>bottom of the pool while\u00a0i\u00a0was down there\u00a0i\u00a0<br>tasted\u00a0french\u00a0toast in my cheeks\u00a0i\u00a0\u00a0<br>bit them till the red syrup streamed through my\u00a0\u00a0<br>teeth turning the chlorine into strawberry milk\u00a0<br>living in the farmhouse meant\u00a0<br>power flickering in\u00a0january\u00a0every year lighting\u00a0<br>candles no furnace no heat so blankets &amp; huddling together\u00a0<br>i\u00a0remember driving to school &amp; my car shutting off\u00a0<br>being stuck on the side of the road\u00a0<br>i\u00a0remember dancing front &amp; center on a wooden stage\u00a0i\u00a0<br>remember going to college &amp; falling in love\u00a0\u00a0<br>for real the first time\u00a0i\u00a0<br>remember certain things but not\u00a0<br>everything because\u00a0\u00a0<br>everything was so simple back then when\u00a0\u00a0<br>my dad would make\u00a0<br>french\u00a0toast\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nick Roberts christmas\u00a0mornings in the 2000\u2019s meant\u00a0waking up with my sister &amp;\u00a0going to open presents it was so\u00a0\u00a0simple back then &amp; my dad would\u00a0make\u00a0french\u00a0toast\u00a0i\u00a0look back on photos in books full of\u00a0\u00a0jumping in leaf piles birthdays with\u00a0pumpkin pie instead of cake me\u00a0holding my sister going down waterslides that one time\u00a0i\u00a0flipped off the tube &amp; sunk&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/french-toast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">french toast<\/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-585","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/586"}],"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=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}