{"id":541,"date":"2022-11-17T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:57:53","slug":"hypothetical-conversations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/hypothetical-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Tessa Renken<\/h5>\n<p>I sit in public spaces<\/p>\n<p>where someone might see<\/p>\n<p>and take note of me.<\/p>\n<p>bestow upon me some grand importance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And when they pass<\/p>\n<p>their eyes meeting mine,<\/p>\n<p>I feel shame for deceiving them.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking myself worthy of their time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am disappointed when some man or woman<\/p>\n<p>I have seen but once or twice<\/p>\n<p>does not stop and talk or<\/p>\n<p>smile at me with understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how lovely it would be<\/p>\n<p>to be looked at and seen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But even then,<\/p>\n<p>If they did approach to talk<\/p>\n<p>I would dismiss my existence<\/p>\n<p>as an inconvenience,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bottle up my meaning<\/p>\n<p>and present myself as the fool<\/p>\n<p>I have constructed of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Renken I sit in public spaces where someone might see and take note of me. bestow upon me some grand importance. &nbsp; And when they pass their eyes meeting mine, I feel shame for deceiving them. Thinking myself worthy of their time. &nbsp; I am disappointed when some man or woman I have seen but once or twice does not stop and talk or smile at me with understanding. &nbsp; Oh, how lovely it would be to be looked at and seen. &nbsp; But even then, If they did approach to talk I would dismiss my existence as an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"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=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}