{"id":241,"date":"2022-11-13T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2022-11-13T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:49:49","slug":"a-letter-from-another-race","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/a-letter-from-another-race\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter from another race"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>James Pierce<\/h5>\n<p>You<\/p>\n<p>Who looks out into the universe<\/p>\n<p>Aware only of how little you can know<\/p>\n<p>What solace does it grant to look?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Children, you scream into your pillows,<\/p>\n<p>Vastness promises only to listen<\/p>\n<p>But a child quickens to a captive audience<\/p>\n<p>And so flock to infinity with your findings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is there not trial enough on earth?<\/p>\n<p>Why extend your ambition to the cosmos<\/p>\n<p>To discover new hazards for the human body<\/p>\n<p>The human mind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What of your heart?<\/p>\n<p>What of the sad truths<\/p>\n<p>Exploration promises and delivers<\/p>\n<p>A broken being you are, to crave it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Pierce You Who looks out into the universe Aware only of how little you can know What solace does it grant to look? &nbsp; Children, you scream into your pillows, Vastness promises only to listen But a child quickens to a captive audience And so flock to infinity with your findings &nbsp; Is there not trial enough on earth? Why extend your ambition to the cosmos To discover new hazards for the human body The human mind &nbsp; What of your heart? What of the sad truths Exploration promises and delivers A broken being you are, to crave it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}