{"id":57,"date":"2022-04-03T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2022-04-29T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T17:15:12","slug":"let-us-continue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/let-us-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Shelby Fletcher<\/h5>\n<p>A broken cup lie on the floor in pieces,<\/p>\n<p>cocooned by ash\u2014<\/p>\n<p>the funeral was quick.<\/p>\n<p>The sign of the cross was tossed over the coffin,<\/p>\n<p>while time slowed to a stop.<\/p>\n<p>Arrows of echoed coughs pierced pine pews and cotton cushions,<\/p>\n<p>creating an indoor feather storm.<\/p>\n<p>A podium toppled over on its own accord,<\/p>\n<p>to silence speeches.<\/p>\n<p>Lights went out and darkness fell,<\/p>\n<p>consuming the feathers and crosses and all.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was as it was\u2014<\/p>\n<p>no pause on this day or quiet arrays of birds flying silently in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>They just said, \u201cLet us continue\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Fletcher A broken cup lie on the floor in pieces, cocooned by ash\u2014 the funeral was quick. The sign of the cross was tossed over the coffin, while time slowed to a stop. Arrows of echoed coughs pierced pine pews and cotton cushions, creating an indoor feather storm. A podium toppled over on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/641"}],"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=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}