{"id":158,"date":"2022-04-05T01:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:59:03","slug":"endings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Jess Norris<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They were on a path toward forever,<\/p>\n<p>when they took a wrong turn instead.<\/p>\n<p>In a time full of nevers<\/p>\n<p>upon a road that they couldn\u2019t see ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Leaning on each other<\/p>\n<p>waiting for the hard times to pass;<\/p>\n<p>the lives of the lovers,<\/p>\n<p>fragile as broken glass.<\/p>\n<p>Her heart contained scars<\/p>\n<p>that he couldn\u2019t heal.<\/p>\n<p>He wandered his own mind,<\/p>\n<p>shutting her out tight as steel.<\/p>\n<p>There was no way to know<\/p>\n<p>how their story would end.<\/p>\n<p>They went from talking every day,<\/p>\n<p>to never speaking again.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the risk to uncover,<\/p>\n<p>the thrill and the dangers;<\/p>\n<p>to either end up as lovers,<\/p>\n<p>or end up as strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Norris &nbsp; They were on a path toward forever, when they took a wrong turn instead. In a time full of nevers upon a road that they couldn\u2019t see ahead. Leaning on each other waiting for the hard times to pass; the lives of the lovers, fragile as broken glass. Her heart contained scars [&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-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/663"}],"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=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}