{"id":259,"date":"2023-12-06T02:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2023-12-06T02:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:13:44","slug":"you-want-to-be-a-therapist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/you-want-to-be-a-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"You want to be a therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Sarah Kantola<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Someday, should you reach your goal,<\/p>\n<p>You may have a young girl sitting across from you.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll be crying.<\/p>\n<p>She will find it hard to look at you<\/p>\n<p>Because she\u2019ll feel shame and guilt.<\/p>\n<p>How will you comfort her<\/p>\n<p>Knowing her villain was you in my story?<\/p>\n<p>How will you cure her PTSD that you gifted me?<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>Is that why you had a million manipulations up your sleeve?<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist,<\/p>\n<p>Yet consent is a hard concept for you.<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist,<\/p>\n<p>But when I said \u201cNo\u201d you took it as \u201cmaybe later\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean you\u2019ll understand what you did was wrong someday,<\/p>\n<p>Or will you simply forget?<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist;<\/p>\n<p>It makes me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me cry.<\/p>\n<p>You want to be a therapist<\/p>\n<p>To heal those like me,<\/p>\n<p>The victim you created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Kantola Someday, should you reach your goal, You may have a young girl sitting across from you. She\u2019ll be crying. She will find it hard to look at you Because she\u2019ll feel shame and guilt. How will you comfort her Knowing her villain was you in my story? How will you cure her PTSD &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/you-want-to-be-a-therapist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You want to be a therapist&#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-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"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=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}