{"id":226,"date":"2023-12-01T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2023-12-01T03:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:01:56","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Megan Van Autreve<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>oh god, i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>i want to go back to my childhood home<\/p>\n<p>where the swing set sways in the backyard<\/p>\n<p>where i knew the halls like the back of my hand<\/p>\n<p>where my parents loved each other<\/p>\n<p>or at least i pretended they loved one another<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>oh god, i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>i want to go back to my childhood home<\/p>\n<p>where we couldn\u2019t go too far into the backyard<\/p>\n<p>where the wolves howled in the night<\/p>\n<p>where i caught fireflies and put them in a jar<\/p>\n<p>and pretended they loved me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>oh god, i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>i want to go back to my childhood home<\/p>\n<p>where everyone knew my name<\/p>\n<p>where marigold told me she loved me<\/p>\n<p>where i pushed my sister into the snow<\/p>\n<p>and, for the first time, she told me she hated me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>oh god, i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>i want to go back to my childhood home<\/p>\n<p>where the oak out front stood tall and true<\/p>\n<p>where the world felt small when i went as high as i could on the swing<\/p>\n<p>where my parents first told me they loved me<\/p>\n<p>and where they never hated me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>oh god, i want to go home<\/p>\n<p>whatever that could possibly mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Van Autreve i want to go home oh god, i want to go home i want to go back to my childhood home where the swing set sways in the backyard where i knew the halls like the back of my hand where my parents loved each other or at least i pretended they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/home-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#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-226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions\/227"}],"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=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}