{"id":438,"date":"2021-04-14T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=438"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:36:17","slug":"were-just-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/were-just-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Just Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Jess Norris<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>I woke with beads of sweat curling on my forehead<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to you by my side breathing lighter than the air around us<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I briefly touch your hand then pull away recalling what you tell them<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re just friends.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ceased listening for a while when I became lost in a sea of blue<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your eyes have always been my favorite shade of the ocean<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I forgot what we were discussing when my mind wanders to why<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re just friends.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are my favorite partner to laugh with and slow dance the night away<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m afraid of being so close that you can hear my tell-tale heart<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when another man asks if he can whisk me away for a ballet all you say is<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re just friends.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women are fond of your handsome beauty<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and question the air between you and I<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my painful answer tastes like lead on my tongue<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re just friends.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I long for that day that will never come<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your heart would open to mine and finally our worlds collide<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but for the time being and probably for always, you and I?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re just friends.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Norris &nbsp; I woke with beads of sweat curling on my forehead to you by my side breathing lighter than the air around us I briefly touch your hand then pull away recalling what you tell them we\u2019re just friends. &nbsp; I ceased listening for a while when I became lost in a sea&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/were-just-friends\/\">Continue Reading We&#8217;re Just Friends<\/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-438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}