{"id":608,"date":"2022-11-19T04:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=608"},"modified":"2022-11-19T04:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:57:46","slug":"fears-of-the-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/fears-of-the-dreamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of the Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Darcy Mueller<\/h5>\n<p>Today I took all my dreams<\/p>\n<p>And drew them on the finest paper<\/p>\n<p>With the richest colors I could find<\/p>\n<p>I filled every inch of space<\/p>\n<p>Till the page seemed to be alive<\/p>\n<p>I hear the sounds and smell the smells I had yet to experience<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I just sat there and smiled<\/p>\n<p>At the still frames on the page<\/p>\n<p>At the faceless figures I had yet to meet<\/p>\n<p>So they could not disappoint<\/p>\n<p>I let myself be transported<\/p>\n<p>To a million different worlds<\/p>\n<p>All perfect bliss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I tore up the page<\/p>\n<p>Till it was no longer recognizable<\/p>\n<p>Then I sat down once more with my pens<\/p>\n<p>Sketching every fear and insecurity<\/p>\n<p>Then folded it into an envelope<\/p>\n<p>So they could never be free<\/p>\n<p>And I would never have to see my dreams again<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darcy Mueller Today I took all my dreams And drew them on the finest paper With the richest colors I could find I filled every inch of space Till the page seemed to be alive I hear the sounds and smell the smells I had yet to experience &nbsp; Then I just sat there and smiled At the still frames on the page At the faceless figures I had yet to meet So they could not disappoint I let myself be transported To a million different worlds All perfect bliss &nbsp; Then I tore up the page Till it was&#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-608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"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=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}