{"id":294,"date":"2022-11-13T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2022-11-13T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T23:03:50","slug":"watering-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/watering-day\/","title":{"rendered":"watering day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Maia Huddleston<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in the backyard<\/p>\n<p>our labias hang out to dry, clothespinned at the clit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the fireworks bloom,<\/p>\n<p>a chip bag pops in the school cafe,<\/p>\n<p>a display of cheap balloons<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we go back to the suburbs, but the drought has killed all the grass.<\/p>\n<p>we drive through gated neighborhoods with Black lawns.<\/p>\n<p>we pay for filtered water<\/p>\n<p>to sprinkle across the zinnias<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but the sirens don\u2019t stop singing anymore,<\/p>\n<p>a constant lullaby<\/p>\n<p>to put our minds and hands to sleep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Huddleston &nbsp; in the backyard our labias hang out to dry, clothespinned at the clit &nbsp; the fireworks bloom, a chip bag pops in the school cafe, a display of cheap balloons &nbsp; we go back to the suburbs, but the drought has killed all the grass. we drive through gated neighborhoods with Black lawns. we pay for filtered water to sprinkle across the zinnias &nbsp; but the sirens don\u2019t stop singing anymore, a constant lullaby to put our minds and hands to sleep<\/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-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/305"}],"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=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}