{"id":462,"date":"2023-04-25T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:05:16","slug":"nonverbal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/nonverbal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonverbal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Annie LaMontagna<\/h5>\n<p>I lay with soaked silk pillow sheets<br \/>\nstomach twisting, throat dry<\/p>\n<p>Contemplating unorganized<br \/>\nmismatched chromosomes<br \/>\nof my two little sweeties<\/p>\n<p>I want you to argue with me<br \/>\nI want to hear from your lungs that you love me<\/p>\n<p>Bite, pinch, and hit<br \/>\nSnuggle, hug, and dance<\/p>\n<p>Do noises and sounds speak louder than actions?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never heard such an obnoxious \u201cAUHHH\u201d<br \/>\nTo see someone pointing at a picture of dunkin coffee on their ipad<\/p>\n<p>People stare in line<br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s two of them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what my sisters would say if<br \/>\nGifted luxurious vocal cords<\/p>\n<p>Would their voices match their laughs?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie LaMontagna I lay with soaked silk pillow sheets stomach twisting, throat dry Contemplating unorganized mismatched chromosomes of my two little sweeties I want you to argue with me I want to hear from your lungs that you love me Bite, pinch, and hit Snuggle, hug, and dance Do noises and sounds speak louder than <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/nonverbal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions\/724"}],"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=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}