{"id":257,"date":"2022-11-13T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2022-11-13T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:57:22","slug":"manicured","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/manicured\/","title":{"rendered":"manicured"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Maia Huddleston<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>before quarantine<\/p>\n<p>started i had a gel manicure paid<\/p>\n<p>$35 at high-tech nails in bloomington<\/p>\n<p>and called that self care now i rip<\/p>\n<p>off my toenails with my fingers and see how<\/p>\n<p>short they get before they bleed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my mom used to tell me that i could stop<\/p>\n<p>biting my nails any time i wanted but<\/p>\n<p>she had perfect<\/p>\n<p>long influencer nails always ready to tap<\/p>\n<p>on the table and click click click on the<\/p>\n<p>keys i envy her flawlessness the way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>water falls from the kitchen sink in a<\/p>\n<p>constant stream not spitting or splurting or turning brown and i think maybe if i could<\/p>\n<p>just get some fake nails and glue them on<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019d be cured but the minute they come<\/p>\n<p>off i am picking and peeling from left to right begging my nails to bend and break<\/p>\n<p>just as they develop their own sense of security<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so i wonder if i can get<\/p>\n<p>hypnotized the way smokers do<\/p>\n<p>and if so<\/p>\n<p>if i will grow nails just like my mothers for<\/p>\n<p>carrying dishes and pushing button<\/p>\n<p>because i really can\u2019t believe my fingers and<\/p>\n<p>toes don\u2019t ache the way my lungs do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Huddleston &nbsp; before quarantine started i had a gel manicure paid $35 at high-tech nails in bloomington and called that self care now i rip off my toenails with my fingers and see how short they get before they bleed &nbsp; my mom used to tell me that i could stop biting my nails any time i wanted but she had perfect long influencer nails always ready to tap on the table and click click click on the keys i envy her flawlessness the way &nbsp; water falls from the kitchen sink in a constant stream not spitting or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions\/282"}],"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=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}