{"id":108,"date":"2023-12-01T01:47:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2023-12-01T01:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:47:52","slug":"is-it-healing-or-is-it-time-passing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/is-it-healing-or-is-it-time-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Healing or Is It Time Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Ryley Clarke<\/h5>\n<p>Is it healing or is it time passing, I wonder.<br \/>\nWhen I think of you for a moment, I am only indifferent<br \/>\nYet if your name lingers as if the embers of a fire, a tinge of pain rises in my heart with the<br \/>\nsmoke of the golden flames<br \/>\nAnd when your name fades into the cloudy skies, the tinge of pain sinks back into my heart\u2019s<br \/>\ndepths.<br \/>\nI am curious; what must be the weight of my mother\u2019s heart for only after one love loss has my<br \/>\nchest grown heavy.<br \/>\nMore marbles being added to my dear organ<br \/>\nHow much strength we must gain to prevent our hearts from falling to our livers, to our<br \/>\nthighs, to our feet.<br \/>\nOne must understand that our hearts are vast oceans.<br \/>\nLet the bliss stay in the shallow ends, soaking in the light of the sun.<br \/>\nLet the pain drop below to the deepest, darkest parts of the seas<br \/>\nAnd if at times it must float atop, let the waves drown it back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryley Clarke Is it healing or is it time passing, I wonder. When I think of you for a moment, I am only indifferent Yet if your name lingers as if the embers of a fire, a tinge of pain rises in my heart with the smoke of the golden flames And when your name &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/is-it-healing-or-is-it-time-passing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is It Healing or Is It Time Passing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/114"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}