{"id":470,"date":"2023-04-25T21:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2023-05-01T02:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:55:05","slug":"dominican-dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/dominican-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"
Melisha Amboise<\/h5>\n

As Aventura begins to play,<\/span>
\n<\/span>yayo<\/span><\/i> grabs my hand only to<\/span>
\n<\/span>see I cannot dance.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYayo<\/span><\/i>, I don\u2019t know how to<\/span>
\n<\/span>dance like you.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u202f<\/span>\u201cOf course, you do, Mija<\/span>
\n<\/span>you just have to try.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I begin to follow<\/span>
\n<\/span>the one – two steps<\/span>
\n<\/span>hoping I will get it\u202f<\/span>
\n<\/span>right.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u202f<\/span>Smiling abundantly,\u202f<\/span>
\n<\/span>Now embraced.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melisha Amboise As Aventura begins to play, yayo grabs my hand only to see I cannot dance.\u00a0 \u201cYayo, I don\u2019t know how to dance like you.”\u00a0 \u202f\u201cOf course, you do, Mija you just have to try.\u201d\u00a0 I begin to follow the one – two steps hoping I will get it\u202f right.\u202f\u00a0 \u202fSmiling abundantly,\u202f Now embraced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions\/703"}],"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=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}