{"id":303,"date":"2020-11-18T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:09:00","slug":"social-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/social-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"social anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201csocial anxiety\u201d\u00a0<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my social anxiety\u00a0\u00a0<br>makes it hard for me to breathe.\u00a0\u00a0<br>my chest begins to compress\u00a0<br>and my thoughts become foreign to me\u00a0<br>as if I hadn\u2019t been rehearsing my answers in my head\u00a0\u00a0<br>since the question was presented.\u00a0<br>\u201cTell us your name and a fun fact about yourself.\u201d\u00a0<br>as if that is so easy.\u00a0<br>suddenly\u00a0<br>I can&#8217;t remember the phrase\u00a0I\u2019ve been repeating all day\u00a0<br>scattered from memory\u00a0<br>my hands shake\u00a0\u00a0<br>my thoughts race\u00a0<br>my face becomes flush\u00a0<br>and I laugh to cover up\u00a0\u00a0<br>the fact that my vocal\u00a0cords\u00a0are being crushed\u00a0<br>by the pressure of measuring up\u00a0<br>as your eyes\u00a0\u00a0<br>and everyone else\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0<br>watch me\u00a0\u00a0<br>closely\u00a0\u00a0<br>endlessly\u00a0<br>while my eyes dart around the room\u00a0\u00a0<br>trying to distract myself from what everyone else must be thinking\u00a0<br>as my thoughts are blank at the simple question of\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u201cWhat is your name?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I Don\u2019t Know\u00a0<br>I Don\u2019t Know\u00a0<br>I Don\u2019t Know\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask someone else.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n\u201csocial anxiety\u201d\u00a0 my social anxiety\u00a0\u00a0makes it hard for me to breathe.\u00a0\u00a0my chest begins to compress\u00a0and my thoughts become foreign to me\u00a0as if I hadn\u2019t been rehearsing my answers in my head\u00a0\u00a0since the question was presented.\u00a0\u201cTell us your name and a&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/social-anxiety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;social anxiety&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-303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/413"}],"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=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}