{"id":249,"date":"2020-11-18T01:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:29:24","slug":"blue-lunch-box","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/blue-lunch-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lunch Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Blue Lunch Box<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was that blue lunch box<br>The one that became a symbol of my childhood<br>That blue lunch box represented the one person that was supposed to be my first love at sight<br>Yet be the biggest monster I will forever disguise<br>The person who I will never be able to share memories with<br>But will forever need their approval<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That blue lunch box had everything you needed<br>A quarter before 6 is when that blue lunch box appeared &#8211; next to the front door<br>It told me the time<br>It held the most humanic essentials<br>A blue Gatorade&#8230; <br>Overall I can say maybe your favorite color could have been blue<br>It represented your dark, sad, careless, twisted, lies and heart<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That forbidden blue that is engraved in my head<br>The imperfected texture of that lunch box<br>Its prickly corners that were destroyed from hit after hit<br>The same hits that I would experience from your choices<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even after all the years the blue lunch box<br>It had been washed hundreds of times by its loving wifeA wife that would soon lose her mind if that lunch box disappearedOne dayAnd suddenly it was gone&#8230; that was when sense of self was brokenBroken amongst us all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBlue Lunch Box It was that blue lunch boxThe one that became a symbol of my childhoodThat blue lunch box represented the one person that was supposed to be my first love at sightYet be the biggest monster I will&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/blue-lunch-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Blue Lunch Box&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-249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions\/378"}],"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=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}