{"id":203,"date":"2020-11-18T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2020-11-18T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:33:44","slug":"battlefield-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/battlefield-of-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield of Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBattlefield of Chaos\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026more madness. Then nothing.<br>Then more insanity<br>More chaos<br>Not training. Conditioning<br>I become acclimated to the confusion;<br>I start to revel in it;<br>I come to be a part of it.<br>The sounds, the smells, the blinding lights<br>The pain, the degradation<br>None of it matters<br>Neither do I<br>As long as\u00a0I do what I\u2019m supposed to\u2026 and that\u2019s a good thing<br>My senses,<br>             my feelings,<br>             my very life<br>They\u00a0are\u00a0all\u00a0irrelevant<br>All that matters is the task before me\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The battle begins as a symphony of harmonics<br>With each dimension suddenly,<br>             violently<br>             Revealing itself to the enemy<br>These dimensions curl down over their worlds<br>Compressing into an ever-tightening sensorial experience<br>For which\u00a0they\u00a0have\u00a0no response<br>Save panic\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we<br>Who use such\u00a0weapons<br>Are acclimated to confusion<br>We revel in it<br>We are a part of it\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we endow the arena of our enemies with confusion<br>We deliver unto them a battlefield of chaos<br>Over which they have no control<br>For which they have no training<br>Upon which they have no hope of dominion<br>They are just unwelcome visitors to our home<br>Temporary intruders in our world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n\u201cBattlefield of Chaos\u201d&nbsp; \u2026more madness. Then nothing.Then more insanityMore chaosNot training. ConditioningI become acclimated to the confusion;I start to revel in it;I come to be a part of it.The sounds, the smells, the blinding lightsThe pain, the degradationNone of it&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/battlefield-of-chaos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Battlefield of Chaos&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}