{"id":318,"date":"2021-04-13T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:50:00","slug":"when-i-said-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/when-i-said-home\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Said Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Frank Modica<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I meant the duplex on Union Avenue<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">not too far from Mayor Daley\u2019s bungalow&#8211;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my village; a corner store, laundromat,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my playgrounds, a postage stamp backyard ,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the alley behind our apartment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I said home<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I meant my Catholic grammar school<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sitting squat on a corner one block away,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">not the two nearby Catholic schools,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">never the public school across the street.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I said home I meant the Ramova,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a theater with weekend matinees,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a safe enough walk down Halsted<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if you didn\u2019t male eye contact with young men<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">pitching pennies by unfamiliar parks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I said home I meant<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my neighborhood,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the streets and sounds I knew.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Modica &nbsp; I meant the duplex on Union Avenue not too far from Mayor Daley\u2019s bungalow&#8211; my village; a corner store, laundromat, my playgrounds, a postage stamp backyard , the alley behind our apartment. &nbsp; When I said home I meant my Catholic grammar school sitting squat on a corner one block away, not&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/when-i-said-home\/\">Continue Reading When I Said Home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}