{"id":546,"date":"2023-04-26T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=546"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:57:53","slug":"erasure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/erasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Tessa Renken<\/h5>\n<p>Do not let me be lost to history.<br \/>\nI relent to being enveloped by Time&#8217;s arms,<br \/>\nMaking way for new days,<br \/>\nBut do not let me be lost to history.<br \/>\nWhile remembering the oppressive men of my time.<\/p>\n<p>Take us all.<br \/>\nLose us all.<br \/>\nOr make note of us all.<\/p>\n<p>Do not leave us<br \/>\nAs forgotten and ignored and death<br \/>\nAs we were in life.<\/p>\n<p>We are owed more than that.<\/p>\n<p>I may not make history in the eyes of man<br \/>\nBut my matriarchs would weep to see the life I lead.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be remembered not in the minds of men<br \/>\nBut in the steps of my kin,<br \/>\nThose who see themselves in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Renken Do not let me be lost to history. I relent to being enveloped by Time&#8217;s arms, Making way for new days, But do not let me be lost to history. While remembering the oppressive men of my time. Take us all. Lose us all. Or make note of us all. Do not leave <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/erasure\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions\/718"}],"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=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}