{"id":558,"date":"2023-04-26T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:59:49","slug":"never-take-me-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/never-take-me-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Never take me back"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Tessa Renken<\/h5>\n<p>How quickly the past can become a hell of one\u2019s mind<br \/>\nHow it heats up the nerves of the brain<br \/>\nand waters the eyes.<br \/>\nTightens the lips<br \/>\nand boils the skin.<\/p>\n<p>Do not take me back there-<br \/>\nnever take me back.<br \/>\nNostalgia is a liar<br \/>\nand I see through her cracks.<\/p>\n<p>A childhood is happy<br \/>\nsafe and warm,<br \/>\nbut the hell behind my eyes<br \/>\nis a separate world<br \/>\nThere should exist no fondness for the way I had behaved-<br \/>\nLet others walk over me and trampled other\u2019s frames.<\/p>\n<p>A frizzy haired time bomb,<br \/>\nprickly and afraid<br \/>\ninflicted hurt and felt it as if in a daze.<\/p>\n<p>She made me who I am<br \/>\nI will rightly owe her that,<br \/>\nbut I could never be her<br \/>\nwho I am now<br \/>\nso never take me back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Renken How quickly the past can become a hell of one\u2019s mind How it heats up the nerves of the brain and waters the eyes. Tightens the lips and boils the skin. Do not take me back there- never take me back. Nostalgia is a liar and I see through her cracks. A childhood <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/never-take-me-back\/\">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-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/720"}],"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=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}