{"id":337,"date":"2022-04-08T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:33:45","slug":"under-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/under-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Holly Day<\/h5>\n<p>I open my mouth and imagine birds are going to fly out<\/p>\n<p>That inside me are flocks of birds that have struggled<\/p>\n<p>With captivity for years. I will the birds to take form<\/p>\n<p>Encourage them to force their way through my body, through my skin<\/p>\n<p>Can almost feel their tiny claws struggling to find purchase<\/p>\n<p>Along the slick, wet meat inside my chest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing comes out and I am empty, I don\u2019t understand<\/p>\n<p>I thought there was something better than me in here. The audience<\/p>\n<p>Stares at me in impatient confusion from rows of folded metal chairs<\/p>\n<p>They came here to see me do something special<\/p>\n<p>They came to see something wonderful, or just something.<\/p>\n<p>The bird song I thought I had dies in my throat, comes out finally<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As only a croak, a whisper, a quiet and stuttering end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Day I open my mouth and imagine birds are going to fly out That inside me are flocks of birds that have struggled With captivity for years. I will the birds to take form Encourage them to force their way through my body, through my skin Can almost feel their tiny claws struggling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions\/415"}],"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=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}