{"id":689,"date":"2021-04-25T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=689"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:11:57","slug":"death-on-a-cold-december","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/death-on-a-cold-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Death on a Cold December"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alexis Foran<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n

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we all know what is waiting for our skinny, sandy-brown dogs on moonless winter nights;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

long cold, late morning, no sunshine,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

deep snow in the fenced-up<\/span>\u00a0yard<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

where<\/span>\u00a0he would bound up and down through the slush,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

curled tail and spotted tongue wagging,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

cutting paths, trails to blaze<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

until finally, one frigid midnight, his bony hips will give out, he will slip<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

jump and break, can\u2019t stand again<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

seize on the floor, eyes rolling back<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

until finally, must decide to carry him off to vet,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

two lone parents agreeing not to wake the kids<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexis Foran   we all know what is waiting for our skinny, sandy-brown dogs on moonless winter nights;\u00a0 long cold, late morning, no sunshine,\u00a0 deep snow in the fenced-up\u00a0yard\u00a0 where\u00a0he would bound up and down through the slush,\u00a0\u00a0 curled tail and spotted tongue wagging,\u00a0\u00a0 cutting paths, trails to blaze\u00a0 until finally, one frigid midnight, his… Continue Reading Death on a Cold December<\/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-689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}