{"id":318,"date":"2022-04-07T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:55:11","slug":"cafecito","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/cafecito\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafecito"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Veronica Lopez<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How can I acquire the language to describe my brownness<\/p>\n<p>My brownness, my pride, my culture, my side<\/p>\n<p>To you, it might just be a color,<\/p>\n<p>To me, my brownness is more than b-r-o-w-n<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself when<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When did I know I was brown?<\/p>\n<p>For so long I\u2019ve seen the plastered brown on the wooden homes<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen how mixing all the watercolors make up<\/p>\n<p>that envious brown mix\u2026 tasteful isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That these kinds of browns are celebrated in ways<\/p>\n<p>That I couldn\u2019t celebrate myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perfection is the enemy of the action<\/p>\n<p>Comparing my brownness to your<\/p>\n<p>brown, both the same color just one<\/p>\n<p>with more opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My brownness is the collection of the<\/p>\n<p>Caramel, creamy memories that make my identity<\/p>\n<p>Creamy caramel,<\/p>\n<p>That you enjoy and drink.<\/p>\n<p>Un Cafecito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronica Lopez &nbsp; How can I acquire the language to describe my brownness My brownness, my pride, my culture, my side To you, it might just be a color, To me, my brownness is more than b-r-o-w-n I ask myself when &nbsp; When did I know I was brown? For so long I\u2019ve seen the [&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-318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions\/659"}],"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=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}