{"id":633,"date":"2020-05-01T03:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=633"},"modified":"2020-05-01T03:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:08:33","slug":"the-emptiness-that-marks-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/the-emptiness-that-marks-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emptiness that Marks Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Holly Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of years from now, the dead bodies we leave behind\u00a0<br>will have turned to lye and eaten their way through the earth. Great<br>caverns\u00a0<br>will spread beneath our cemeteries as bodies melt through caskets\u00a0<br>as empty and huge as the cathedrals crumbling aboveground.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Small creatures will find their way into these caverns, their descendants\u00a0<br>slowly becoming blind with each new generation. Pools of water\u00a0<br>filled with eyeless fish and newts will spread through the tunnels\u00a0<br>perhaps still carrying traces of embalming fluid and lead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Holly Day Thousands of years from now, the dead bodies we leave behind\u00a0will have turned to lye and eaten their way through the earth. Greatcaverns\u00a0will spread beneath our cemeteries as bodies melt through caskets\u00a0as empty and huge as the cathedrals crumbling aboveground.\u00a0 Small creatures will find their way into these caverns, their descendants\u00a0slowly becoming&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/the-emptiness-that-marks-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Emptiness that Marks Us<\/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-633","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"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=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}