{"id":284,"date":"2022-11-13T22:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2022-11-13T22:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:59:53","slug":"paperweight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/paperweight\/","title":{"rendered":"paperweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Maia Huddleston<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i spent twenty one years training for a best friend i couldn\u2019t lose<\/p>\n<p>she still seems so far away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my maid of honor will not return the favor<\/p>\n<p>she will be lovely yet loyal to the roots she grew in adolescence<\/p>\n<p>while i danced along the wind like maple seeds<\/p>\n<p>clinging to a moving current, hitting the pavement where it failed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a paperweight sort of sad i hold in my palms from time to time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a post-therapy conflict, not pressing but present<\/p>\n<p>always whispering in my ear through the tipsy game of telephone we play at midnight<\/p>\n<p>asking if i will find her in time, if i will ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Huddleston &nbsp; i spent twenty one years training for a best friend i couldn\u2019t lose she still seems so far away &nbsp; my maid of honor will not return the favor she will be lovely yet loyal to the roots she grew in adolescence while i danced along the wind like maple seeds clinging to a moving current, hitting the pavement where it failed &nbsp; it\u2019s a paperweight sort of sad i hold in my palms from time to time &nbsp; it\u2019s a post-therapy conflict, not pressing but present always whispering in my ear through the tipsy game of&#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-284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions\/292"}],"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=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}