{"id":168,"date":"2023-12-01T02:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2023-12-01T02:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:24:17","slug":"the-deal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Ali Ashhar<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The walls of my room have held<\/p>\n<p>the strangest of secrets for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The windows know all sullen horizons<\/p>\n<p>through the boulevard of time.<\/p>\n<p>For years,<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to capture my life<\/p>\n<p>around the ghettos of pen and paper;<\/p>\n<p>the syllables I yield with my blood<\/p>\n<p>weigh the heaviest<\/p>\n<p>when put on my soul,<\/p>\n<p>and lightest when<\/p>\n<p>put on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The roof over my head witnesses<\/p>\n<p>my untamed solitude put to serene pages<\/p>\n<p>over and over again;<\/p>\n<p>it resides in the<\/p>\n<p>moment and in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p>Someone knocks<\/p>\n<p>at my door<\/p>\n<p>and calls for a deal<\/p>\n<p>while others watch from<\/p>\n<p>down the lane<\/p>\n<p>for them\u2014<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a saga<\/p>\n<p>from alphabets to pages<\/p>\n<p>for me\u2014<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a war<\/p>\n<p>from life and beyond death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Ashhar The walls of my room have held the strangest of secrets for a while. The windows know all sullen horizons through the boulevard of time. For years, I have been trying to capture my life around the ghettos of pen and paper; the syllables I yield with my blood weigh the heaviest when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/the-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Deal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"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=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}