{"id":145,"date":"2022-04-05T01:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:13:33","slug":"anger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Jess Norris<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I want to whisper.<\/p>\n<p>Or better yet,<\/p>\n<p>I want to find the silence in your screams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why are you always yelling?<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t I make you happy?<\/p>\n<p>Why am I not enough?<\/p>\n<p>Everything sets you off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tiptoe around,<\/p>\n<p>afraid of becoming your prey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re constantly enraged.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for someone to hurt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the way that you do.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired of being your victim.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired of holding in my tears.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I hold my breath,<\/p>\n<p>my voice,<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t bring you any pain,<\/p>\n<p>and you can\u2019t keep causing mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Norris &nbsp; Sometimes I want to whisper. Or better yet, I want to find the silence in your screams. &nbsp; Why are you always yelling? Why can\u2019t I make you happy? Why am I not enough? Everything sets you off. &nbsp; I tiptoe around, afraid of becoming your prey. &nbsp; You\u2019re constantly enraged. Looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/662"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}