{"id":283,"date":"2020-11-18T01:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:29:57","slug":"we-call-it-the-chase","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/we-call-it-the-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"We Call It the Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you\u2019re young and know little <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You chase dreams that become brittle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> You chase feelings of lust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That kick your heart to the dust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You learn with failure and fault<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The things that become important as an adult<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your childish views of the world fade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When bad love cuts you like a blade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then you find the chase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The things that make your heart race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The things that set your stomach aflutter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The things that make you shutter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You realize that it\u2019s been on her face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> That thing you want to chase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You just want to admire it awhile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> It\u2019s always been that beautiful smile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhen you\u2019re young and know little You chase dreams that become brittle You chase feelings of lust That kick your heart to the dust You learn with failure and fault The things that become important as an adult Your childish&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/we-call-it-the-chase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;We Call It the Chase&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-283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/398"}],"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=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}