{"id":381,"date":"2021-11-30T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:34:35","slug":"dancing-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/dancing-in-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Grace Cram<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dad pulls me in to a twirl<\/p>\n<p>as if i was still his little girl<\/p>\n<p>and we dance<\/p>\n<p>like we did to the <em>Cinderella <\/em>song<\/p>\n<p>at the father-daughter dance at church.<\/p>\n<p>I had pressed my cheek into his navy blue button-up<\/p>\n<p>swaying in the middle of the pink smoke-machine fog<\/p>\n<p>and wished to dance forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>now, Tension has weaseled into the space between our arms.<\/p>\n<p>and we twirl around<\/p>\n<p>the raw words exchanged in angry teenage passion,<\/p>\n<p>trampling them into graves<\/p>\n<p>until they resurrect<\/p>\n<p>over the kitchen table<\/p>\n<p>the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have this crick in my neck<\/p>\n<p>from looking up to you<\/p>\n<p>for so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Cram &nbsp; Dad pulls me in to a twirl as if i was still his little girl and we dance like we did to the Cinderella song at the father-daughter dance at church. I had pressed my cheek into his navy blue button-up swaying in the middle of the pink smoke-machine fog and wished&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/dancing-in-the-kitchen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dancing in the Kitchen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-381","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}