{"id":95,"date":"2022-04-05T01:37:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:56:34","slug":"when-i-was-young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/when-i-was-young\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Was Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Jess Norris<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know the walls were thin?<\/p>\n<p>I heard every argument.<\/p>\n<p>Every wail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every cry.<\/p>\n<p>For eighteen years I pretended I couldn\u2019t hear you.<\/p>\n<p>Now I fall asleep at night,<\/p>\n<p>reliving all those years where screaming and fighting<\/p>\n<p>was my only representation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of what love looks like.<\/p>\n<p>I often sit up in the darkness,<\/p>\n<p>wondering if I\u2019m damned to the same fate;<\/p>\n<p>if love is even worth a damn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Norris &nbsp; Did you know the walls were thin? I heard every argument. Every wail. &nbsp; Every cry. For eighteen years I pretended I couldn\u2019t hear you. Now I fall asleep at night, reliving all those years where screaming and fighting was my only representation &nbsp; of what love looks like. I often sit [&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-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/661"}],"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=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}