{"id":257,"date":"2020-11-18T01:18:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2020-11-21T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T22:35:50","slug":"snowman-in-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/snowman-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowman in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Snowman in America&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">It is a white whip travelling through space&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>                                                        &nbsp;and&nbsp;it seeks my mother\u2019s face.&nbsp;<br>The club is like a 3 a.m. party on&nbsp;the moon.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mom\u2019s mom is dying today, tomorrow,\u00a0<br>while\u00a0the egret is one-legged\u00a0in Puerto Rico.\u00a0<br>I\u00a0should\u00a0think dancing a fine reward for this pain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not know which porcelain uterus is more fragile,&nbsp;<br>but&nbsp;I will hurl flowers at sea, anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>                                            I will sing my songs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at me in the bar feel my\u00a0heartbeat\u00a0music\u00a0\u00a0<br>listen I want to be a snowman in\u00a0\u00a0<br>America.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSnowman in America&nbsp; It is a white whip travelling through space&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;and&nbsp;it seeks my mother\u2019s face.&nbsp;The club is like a 3 a.m. party on&nbsp;the moon.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mom\u2019s mom is dying today, tomorrow,\u00a0while\u00a0the egret is one-legged\u00a0in Puerto Rico.\u00a0I\u00a0should\u00a0think dancing a fine reward&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/snowman-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Snowman in America&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-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions\/545"}],"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=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}