{"id":486,"date":"2021-04-15T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:05:04","slug":"morning-routine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/morning-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Eaman Saleh<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clock reads 7:00 a.m.<br \/>It\u2019s time to wake up<br \/>Ironic I\u2019ve been awake since dawn<br \/>My mind a vortex of thoughts that forbid me from resting<br \/>-You need to get up<br \/>-Why?\u2026<br \/>-Because you need to start your day.<br \/>-Time is arbitrary, I started my day the moment your incessant blabbering invaded my bedroom.<br \/>-Well I hate to break it to you but you have work to do and deadlines to meet.<br \/>-What\u2019s the point of that?<br \/>-The point is to achieve.<br \/>-Do not spout nonsense we both know that I will never amount to success. I am not worthy enough for such a thing so take your motivational blasphemy and-<br \/>-You can\u2019t just stay in bed for the rest of the day.<br \/>-Leave me be, I\u2019ve grown weary of your presence; then again you never leave do you?<br \/>-Please just get up. Your weariness will tire and disappear eventually. You have to keep going.<br \/>-What if I don\u2019t want to keep on going? What if I don\u2019t want to experience the same day over and over again until I can no longer tell them apart from one another? What if I just remained here, shackled to this bed until eternity claims me?<br \/>-\u2026Now you are just being dramatic, if you won&#8217;t do it for yourself then do it for those who love you.<br \/>-People don\u2019t love me, they love to take me for granted. They see my willingness to bargain with the moon, stars, and the sky as a mode of advantage. There is no undying love; there is only love until a true motive is revealed.<br \/>-I\u2019m at wits\u2019 end, you have made it clear that our banter will never cede. I am begging you to get out of bed. Just one more day. Okay?<br \/>-Our banter will cede once you admit that \u2018one more day\u2019 is an evil deception of yours.<br \/>-It is, and if it\u2019s any solace to you, I do not think that I will be around for the day you stop falling for it.<br \/>-\u2026<br \/>The clock reads 7:01 a.m.<br \/>It\u2019s time to wake up<br \/>Ironic I\u2019ve been awake since dawn<br \/>My mind a vortex of thoughts that forbid me from resting<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eaman Saleh &nbsp; The clock reads 7:00 a.m.It\u2019s time to wake upIronic I\u2019ve been awake since dawnMy mind a vortex of thoughts that forbid me from resting-You need to get up-Why?\u2026-Because you need to start your day.-Time is arbitrary, I started my day the moment your incessant blabbering invaded my bedroom.-Well I hate to break&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/morning-routine\/\">Continue Reading Morning Routine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}