{"id":526,"date":"2021-12-03T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2021-12-03T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:05:09","slug":"fiancee-arcade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/fiancee-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianc\u00e9e Arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Lee Stockdale<\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Love hangs in the balance at the Fianc\u00e9e Arcade,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cotton candy is a bush in flames,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">children never get lost no matter how young,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">run around unaccompanied by fianc\u00e9e fathers<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">aiming balls at pyramid cans,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tossing rings to win bears as large as a human,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">until a bear at the top of the Ferris wheel<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fights for the right to have a wife of his own.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Delirious fianc\u00e9es below oblivious\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to the fighting bear, the hook \u2019n\u2019 ladder,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unaware all rides are suspended,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the mustachioed weight guesser has stopped guessing weights,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the strong man appears less strong and drinks coffee\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with the fianc\u00e9e contortionist who dreams out loud<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the man who contorts even better than she,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">how they\u2019ll marry and raise contortionist children,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">make a name for themselves,\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Contorting\u00a0Mullers,<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">be the big act at the Married Arcade.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Stockdale Love hangs in the balance at the Fianc\u00e9e Arcade,\u00a0 cotton candy is a bush in flames,\u00a0 children never get lost no matter how young,\u00a0 run around unaccompanied by fianc\u00e9e fathers\u00a0 aiming balls at pyramid cans,\u00a0\u00a0 tossing rings to win bears as large as a human,\u00a0 until a bear at the top of the&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/fiancee-arcade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fianc\u00e9e Arcade<\/span><\/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-526","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}