{"id":289,"date":"2020-11-18T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:37:38","slug":"burned-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/burned-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Burned Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Burned Pancakes\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could stay here;\u00a0\u00a0<br>Let the years pass,\u00a0\u00a0<br>And serve coffee to the truckers and travelers\u00a0\u00a0<br>As they wander through.\u00a0<br>I could go to sleep tonight\u00a0<br>And open my eyes tomorrow and discover\u00a0\u00a0<br>10 years have passed me by.\u00a0<br>I could let myself become a cliche:\u00a0<br>The old lady who serves coffee\u00a0<br>At the 24-hour diner on the way out of town,\u00a0<br>Who tells tall tales of adventures she never had.\u00a0<br>But I don\u2019t want to drench my life\u00a0<br>In the scent of burned pancakes,\u00a0<br>And watered down coffee,\u00a0<br>And workers coming in off the late shift&#8211;\u00a0<br>Reeking of alcohol, and\u00a0<br>Pilfered dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBurned Pancakes\u00a0 I could stay here;\u00a0\u00a0Let the years pass,\u00a0\u00a0And serve coffee to the truckers and travelers\u00a0\u00a0As they wander through.\u00a0I could go to sleep tonight\u00a0And open my eyes tomorrow and discover\u00a0\u00a010 years have passed me by.\u00a0I could let myself become a&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/burned-pancakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Burned Pancakes&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-289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/402"}],"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=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}