{"id":268,"date":"2021-04-12T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:52","slug":"the-scarred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/the-scarred\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scarred"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Katherine Kruger<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a scarlet woman.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My flaming locks of black-blonde-brown hair<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">roar and crackle like the hearth of the home<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been betrayed in.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You wish you knew what was coming<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">out of my bright red mouth,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lipstick smeared like I\u2019ve gone for blood&#8211; I haven\u2019t,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but you could wait and watch how my mood changes.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My anger flips like a switch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll let you love me; hands roaming, hair tousled,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like a sacrifice to the altar of a pagan god so scarlet<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your eyes are burning&#8211; I hold that power.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They tell you to fear the bright red women&#8211; don\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live like ashes smouldering on the fire as<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">they burn witches on stakes with rage,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">under the delusion flames take away our strength.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a scarlet woman<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">born of fire, anger, and blood.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will love you with all my ferocity<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">until I bury you with my flood.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Kruger &nbsp; I am a scarlet woman. My flaming locks of black-blonde-brown hair roar and crackle like the hearth of the home I have been betrayed in. &nbsp; You wish you knew what was coming out of my bright red mouth, lipstick smeared like I\u2019ve gone for blood&#8211; I haven\u2019t, but you could wait&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/the-scarred\/\">Continue Reading The Scarred<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}