{"id":358,"date":"2021-04-14T02:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2021-04-28T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:35:03","slug":"a-letter-to-my-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/a-letter-to-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to My Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Kevin Wilson<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I sit here and hold you, my eyes closed,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I place my hands on your sides and let your warmth run through me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel as if, until this moment, I have never been alive.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I notice, you smell like strawberries,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I lean in just a little closer, inhaling deeper.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I get closer, my lips fall just a little and I can almost taste you as I breathe.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My lips come to rest on you, and I know this is real<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a love I have found that will be with me every morning to come.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the morning draws to a close, I stand up and prepare for my day<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mind wanders back to you,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and I silently thank you for letting me depend on you<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love you, Coffee.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Wilson &nbsp; As I sit here and hold you, my eyes closed, I place my hands on your sides and let your warmth run through me. I feel as if, until this moment, I have never been alive. I notice, you smell like strawberries, And I lean in just a little closer, inhaling deeper.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/a-letter-to-my-love\/\">Continue Reading A Letter to My Love<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}