{"id":326,"date":"2023-04-25T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2023-04-25T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:18:49","slug":"a-love-song-a-battle-cry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/a-love-song-a-battle-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Song \/ A Battle Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Maia Huddleston<\/h5>\n<p>my great grandmother weeping in the room next door. her husband\u2019s face turned to stone<br \/>\nand their opacity dissipates by the second<\/p>\n<p>i read that stress will steal years from me in the form of insurance co-pays. my heart beats in holy<br \/>\nmatrimony with the peeling scabs underneath<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019re tearing up the highway at home to insert a corporate roundabout. because everyone was begging<br \/>\nfor some construction<br \/>\nand it gives the new conference center some space to breathe<\/p>\n<p>when i was ten, the softball girls tried to drown me in the public pool. a man with dark chest hair grabbed<br \/>\nme and pressed me to him,<br \/>\njust close enough to save<\/p>\n<p>hey google: how can you compare general anxiety to common emotion?<\/p>\n<p>are we nervous or just excited for the sequel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Huddleston my great grandmother weeping in the room next door. her husband\u2019s face turned to stone and their opacity dissipates by the second i read that stress will steal years from me in the form of insurance co-pays. my heart beats in holy matrimony with the peeling scabs underneath they\u2019re tearing up the highway <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/a-love-song-a-battle-cry\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}