{"id":325,"date":"2020-11-18T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:47:38","slug":"change-shoes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/change-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Change Shoes<\/strong>\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI remember the morning\u202f\u00a0\nI stepped in your shit\u00a0\nThat\u202f\u00a0distinct\u00a0\ngrotesque, eerily\u202f\u00a0\nfamiliar feeling.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI spent the next hour kicking,\u202f\u00a0\nscraping your putrid fragments from my shoe\u00a0\nEvery crevice invaded\u00a0\nDeep inside each nook,\u202f\u00a0\na tiny morsel of youstuck.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI spent the hour next running\u202f\u00a0\nwater, splashing soap\u202f\u00a0\non the bottom of my soul\u00a0\n\u00a0\nStill your stench followed me\u00a0\nLike a\u00a0red balloon\u202f\u00a0\ntethered\u2014to my ankle\u00a0\nReminding me of\u00a0It\u00a0\na\u00a0spectrehaunting\u00a0\n\u00a0\nFor\u202f\u00a0\nhoursmonths\u00a0\n    days\u00a0years\u00a0\nI thought\u202f\u00a0\nthe problem was me\u00a0\n\u00a0\nWas it\u2014\u00a0\n       something on my lip?\u00a0\n       my clothes?\u202f\u00a0\n       my hair?\u00a0\n       my very being?\u00a0\n\u00a0\nThis\u00a0skin, I scrubbed\u202f\u00a0\nExfoliating, exorcising every essence exposing\u202f\u00a0\nBare broken bones\u202f\u00a0\nRaw sinew with nothing left\u202f\u00a0\n\u00a0\nUntil I realized\u2014\u00a0\n\u00a0\nAll I had to do\u00a0\nWas change my shoe\u00a0<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nChange Shoes\u00a0 \u00a0 I remember the morning\u202f\u00a0 I stepped in your shit\u00a0 That\u202f\u00a0distinct\u00a0 grotesque, eerily\u202f\u00a0 familiar feeling.\u00a0 \u00a0 I spent the next hour kicking,\u202f\u00a0 scraping your putrid fragments from my shoe\u00a0 Every crevice invaded\u00a0 Deep inside each nook,\u202f\u00a0 a tiny&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/change-shoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Change Shoes&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-325","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/439"}],"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=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}