{"id":643,"date":"2022-11-21T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=643"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:34:32","slug":"ashes-to-ashes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/ashes-to-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Frank Modica<\/h5>\n<p>Hip and collarbone slowly heal after<\/p>\n<p>A recent mishap. I gaze at dusty bike shoes.<\/p>\n<p>I want to grow old riding<\/p>\n<p>my bicycle with all my friends,<\/p>\n<p>I want to recover<\/p>\n<p>from all my aches and pains<\/p>\n<p>before I decompose and feed the worms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to die before my time,<\/p>\n<p>whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Aware of my diminished abilities,<\/p>\n<p>discouraged,<\/p>\n<p>I dream about going on a long ride,<\/p>\n<p>but today I take a short walk,<\/p>\n<p>tomorrow I\u2019ll cycle 30 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Modica Hip and collarbone slowly heal after A recent mishap. I gaze at dusty bike shoes. I want to grow old riding my bicycle with all my friends, I want to recover from all my aches and pains before I decompose and feed the worms. &nbsp; I don\u2019t want to die before my time, whatever that means. Aware of my diminished abilities, discouraged, I dream about going on a long ride, but today I take a short walk, tomorrow I\u2019ll cycle 30 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"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=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}