{"id":460,"date":"2021-04-14T21:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T11:29:28","slug":"skin-soup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/skin-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Kristin Heyder<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mother started melting\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">first at her toes\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She always wore socks\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so none of us would know\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When her ankles turned to soup\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">she used her boots as feet\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and poured the drip of herself\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">down the Kitchen Sink.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once I caught sight\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of skin soup rolling down her thigh\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I yearned to know\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but was\u00a0afraid to ask why.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every now and then\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">while we would play cards\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would spy her fingers dripping\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">down the Ace of Hearts.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After she lost a leg I had to ask\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When will that happen to me?<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No answer, instead she hiked Stump atop Sink\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and\u00a0rolled Pant\u00a0Leg up\u00a0to Knee.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Heyder My mother started melting\u00a0 first at her toes\u00a0 She always wore socks\u00a0\u00a0 so none of us would know\u00a0 &nbsp; When her ankles turned to soup\u00a0 she used her boots as feet\u00a0\u00a0 and poured the drip of herself\u00a0 down the Kitchen Sink.\u00a0 &nbsp; Once I caught sight\u00a0 of skin soup rolling down her thigh\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/skin-soup\/\">Continue Reading Skin Soup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}