{"id":222,"date":"2022-04-05T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:06:30","slug":"elegy-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/elegy-of-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegy of Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Michaela Schroeder<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cGood morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You said,<\/p>\n<p>brushing long brown<\/p>\n<p>hair away with<\/p>\n<p>small, peach colored hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You said to me,<\/p>\n<p>each day I came home<\/p>\n<p>from school, from work,<\/p>\n<p>from the life I lived<\/p>\n<p>apart from you.<\/p>\n<p>You asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow was your day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I always remained silent<\/p>\n<p>to keep the world of you<\/p>\n<p>and the world of me<\/p>\n<p>separate, isolated, free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You said, to me,<\/p>\n<p>as you heaved out<\/p>\n<p>those last words<\/p>\n<p>of life<\/p>\n<p>in death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good morning,<\/p>\n<p>good afternoon,<\/p>\n<p>good evening,<\/p>\n<p>and finally, after all these years,<\/p>\n<p>fat on wasted time,<\/p>\n<p>good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Schroeder \u201cGood morning.\u201d You said, brushing long brown hair away with small, peach colored hands. &nbsp; \u201cGood afternoon.\u201d You said to me, each day I came home from school, from work, from the life I lived apart from you. You asked, \u201cHow was your day?\u201d I always remained silent to keep the world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"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=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}