{"id":488,"date":"2021-04-15T01:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=488"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T11:39:49","slug":"magpie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/magpie\/","title":{"rendered":"Magpie"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Meghan Bennett<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I accuse myself of only loving the shiniest things,<br \/>confusing possession with infatuation<br \/>if it means I get to keep my nest of golden strings<br \/>and pretend away that they don\u2019t lead to me.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing about reflections is they still sting<br \/>when you wrap your lips around them.<br \/>They cut my explanations into ribbons<br \/>with razor edges as they grace my tongue,<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">swallowing me in turn.<br \/>I hunger for the dazzling,<br \/>even still. Refractive conquests<br \/>I can pin in my hair, fix in my eyes,<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am prettier when I am spun from my straw.<br \/>My feathers will unravel when they come plucking<br \/>for their threads, but until then,<br \/>you\u2019ve never seen as sparkling a thing as me.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Bennett &nbsp; I accuse myself of only loving the shiniest things,confusing possession with infatuationif it means I get to keep my nest of golden stringsand pretend away that they don\u2019t lead to me. &nbsp; The thing about reflections is they still stingwhen you wrap your lips around them.They cut my explanations into ribbonswith razor&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/magpie\/\">Continue Reading Magpie<\/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-488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}