{"id":251,"date":"2020-11-18T01:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:41:51","slug":"trees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trees\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swaying\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0brisk autumnal\u00a0breeze\u00a0<br>My dance brings\u00a0travelers\u00a0unwanted chills\u00a0<br>In the winter my dance will\u00a0slowly\u00a0freeze\u00a0<br>Alive I am mute\u00a0crying\u00a0with unsaid\u00a0trills\u00a0\u00a0<br>I change my identity with the season\u00a0<br>Some would say I am beautiful in the fall\u00a0<br>My life\u00a0slowly\u00a0goes by without much reason\u00a0<br>Cut me\u00a0precisely\u00a0and I will build a great wall\u00a0<br>People\u00a0take advantage of me in many\u00a0ways\u00a0\u00a0<br>Some use me\u00a0for shade or\u00a0to keep warm\u00a0\u00a0<br>Inevitably I\u00a0am with you for many days\u00a0<br>Living in nature I\u00a0come in\u00a0various\u00a0forms\u00a0<br>        I\u00a0continue to sway\u00a0freely\u00a0until the end\u00a0<br>        Until one day when I meet a\u00a0forever\u00a0friend\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nTrees\u00a0 Swaying\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0brisk autumnal\u00a0breeze\u00a0My dance brings\u00a0travelers\u00a0unwanted chills\u00a0In the winter my dance will\u00a0slowly\u00a0freeze\u00a0Alive I am mute\u00a0crying\u00a0with unsaid\u00a0trills\u00a0\u00a0I change my identity with the season\u00a0Some would say I am beautiful in the fall\u00a0My life\u00a0slowly\u00a0goes by without much reason\u00a0Cut me\u00a0precisely\u00a0and I will build a great&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trees&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-251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions\/379"}],"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=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}