{"id":468,"date":"2021-04-14T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:04:16","slug":"moon-ladder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/moon-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Elora<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Draw me a ladder\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to the moon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>. . .why?<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because up there\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it is okay to be insignificant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because up there\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can dance and dance and\u00a0<em>dance\u2013<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">until the pads of my feet are bloody and\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">beneath me are craters forged of my own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So\u00a0when my sorrow is sharp enough to hewn open my chest,\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can take out my heart and\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bury it underneath leftover star-dust cocaine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, when it appears my life is about to\u00a0fade\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will laugh as red-ringed roots sprout forth and\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">embed themselves there to make a\u00a0home\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">much better than this Earth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Right\u00a0<\/em><em>now<\/em><em>\u00a0anything is better than this Earth<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because up there the man in the moon\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">was never meant to spend eternity alone.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And neither are we.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elora &nbsp; Draw me a ladder\u00a0\u00a0 to the moon.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; &#8220;. . .why?&#8221;\u00a0 &nbsp; Because up there\u00a0\u00a0 it is okay to be insignificant.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Because up there\u00a0 I can dance and dance and\u00a0dance\u2013\u00a0 until the pads of my feet are bloody and\u00a0\u00a0 beneath me are craters forged of my own.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; So\u00a0when my sorrow is&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/moon-ladder\/\">Continue Reading Moon Ladder<\/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-468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}