{"id":71,"date":"2022-04-04T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2022-04-29T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:34:32","slug":"lovesong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/lovesong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovesong"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Monica Look<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You jokingly said<\/p>\n<p><em>do you love Me<\/em> and<\/p>\n<p>i bit my tongue not to tell You that<\/p>\n<p>i take these things seriously, that<\/p>\n<p>i am a poet before anything else and<\/p>\n<p>words sometimes have too much meaning.<\/p>\n<p>You jokingly said<\/p>\n<p><em>do you love Me<\/em> and<\/p>\n<p>i didn\u2019t know how to tell You that<\/p>\n<p>most of my exes have said they love me<\/p>\n<p>within the first week, that<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s somehow possible to cheapen the word<\/p>\n<p>even to those who believe in<\/p>\n<p>a human being\u2019s infinite capacity for love.<\/p>\n<p>You jokingly said<\/p>\n<p><em>do you love Me<\/em> and<\/p>\n<p>i wanted to tell You that love is a process<\/p>\n<p>for me, that i fall in love too easily and<\/p>\n<p>therefore cannot bring myself to utter it before absolute<\/p>\n<p>certainty.<\/p>\n<p>You jokingly said<\/p>\n<p><em>do you love Me<\/em> and<\/p>\n<p>i rolled my eyes and smiled and thought about<\/p>\n<p>what it feels like<\/p>\n<p>to fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Look &nbsp; You jokingly said do you love Me and i bit my tongue not to tell You that i take these things seriously, that i am a poet before anything else and words sometimes have too much meaning. You jokingly said do you love Me and i didn\u2019t know how to tell You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/690"}],"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=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}