{"id":604,"date":"2022-11-19T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=604"},"modified":"2022-11-19T04:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:30:15","slug":"opaque-glass-clear","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/opaque-glass-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Opaque Glass Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Darcy Mueller<\/h5>\n<p>A pitcher and two cups of glass<\/p>\n<p>Adorn the table<\/p>\n<p>The pitcher holds only water<\/p>\n<p>Everything is clear<\/p>\n<p>There are not secrets here<\/p>\n<p>The chairs stair from either side<\/p>\n<p>Filled by bodies that host untrusting eyes<\/p>\n<p>No hands reach for a glass<\/p>\n<p>There is no smudge of fingerprints<\/p>\n<p>Everything can be seen<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is hidden when all is clean<\/p>\n<p>Instead, hands rest on laps<\/p>\n<p>When eyes stare blankly ahead<\/p>\n<p>Shadows fall through the table and hit the floor<\/p>\n<p>Monotony blooms in this silent lore<\/p>\n<p>The four walls of wood entrap<\/p>\n<p>The table made of glass<\/p>\n<p>The two men stare<\/p>\n<p>Neither reaches<\/p>\n<p>Neither speaks<\/p>\n<p>But only let time pass<\/p>\n<p>As they look past the table made of glass<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darcy Mueller A pitcher and two cups of glass Adorn the table The pitcher holds only water Everything is clear There are not secrets here The chairs stair from either side Filled by bodies that host untrusting eyes No hands reach for a glass There is no smudge of fingerprints Everything can be seen Nothing is hidden when all is clean Instead, hands rest on laps When eyes stare blankly ahead Shadows fall through the table and hit the floor Monotony blooms in this silent lore The four walls of wood entrap The table made of glass The two men&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"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=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}