{"id":370,"date":"2022-04-08T00:21:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=370"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:29:32","slug":"the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/the-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Holly Day<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think about them dying and wonder<\/p>\n<p>how I can be expected<\/p>\n<p>to hand their bodies over to strangers<\/p>\n<p>to be buried in a grave<\/p>\n<p>far from home, far from me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>when all I really want is to be allowed to<\/p>\n<p>carry bits of them with me<\/p>\n<p>for the rest of my own life<\/p>\n<p>the fingerbones of children in my pocket<\/p>\n<p>or on a string around my neck,<\/p>\n<p>twin rosaries of vertebra wrapped loose<\/p>\n<p>around my wrists<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so I can raise my hands<\/p>\n<p>to my lips, in prayer, to speak<\/p>\n<p>to a family<\/p>\n<p>I will never let go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Day &nbsp; I think about them dying and wonder how I can be expected to hand their bodies over to strangers to be buried in a grave far from home, far from me &nbsp; when all I really want is to be allowed to carry bits of them with me for the rest of [&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-370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions\/413"}],"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=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}