{"id":612,"date":"2022-04-25T04:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?p=612"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:02:30","slug":"editors-choice-for-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/2022\/04\/25\/editors-choice-for-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors Choice for Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"\/17-2\/thoughts-from-the-passenger-side-window\/\">Thoughts from the Passenger Side Window<\/a><\/h4>\n<h5>Arti Rathore<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div id=\"post-link-612\" class=\"sh-link post-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('post', 612, 'Show more...', 'Show less'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"post-toggle-612\">Show more...<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"post-content-612\" class=\"sh-content post-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About The Piece: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally, the piece was an idea I had shared with my best friend for a collection of poems she was writing for one of her classes. She was doing a variety of poems about people watching and I had written a *very* rough draft to explain what I meant when offering her another idea to add to her collection. I ended up revisiting the idea and I was writing my own take on it. I remembered what being in the passenger seat meant for me. Ever since I got my license, I hadn&#8217;t really given it too much thought but I remembered how often I would fight with my sister to sit in front. After that, the words kind of just happened. My dad has always played a big role in who I am and in teaching me life skills, but cars and driving is where we really connected. I haven&#8217;t really ever written poetry before this, or submitted to anything, so once I wrote it I kind of just full-sent it and submitted the piece to see what happened. Honestly, as more time went by, the less confident I was with it and I was surprised that it got the reception that it did from the poetry committee. I guess that goes to show that a writer&#8217;s worst critic is themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About The Author: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Arti and I&#8217;m an English Ed major at ISU. I have always loved English as a whole but I got into writing because I loved to tell stories and the freedom of creating new worlds was so cool to me. I hadn&#8217;t written in a while but as a Euphemism member, I decided to give creative writing another shot and tried my hand at poetry for the first time. In my free time, I love to skate, listen to music, hang out with friends, and bother my roommate&#8217;s cats. I also love photography and any type of art, even though I&#8217;m not really that good at it. In the future, I hope to be a high school English teacher at international schools so I can travel the world and pick up on new cultures and lifestyles. Maybe one day, I&#8217;ll open my own school!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts from the Passenger Side Window Arti Rathore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}