{"id":360,"date":"2023-12-07T03:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2023-12-07T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:03:46","slug":"catamaran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/catamaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Catamaran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>James Friedman<\/h5>\n<p>When I think about you<\/p>\n<p>I can see the miles that are laid out in time before me<\/p>\n<p>And when you smile<\/p>\n<p>I can feel the leaves break free from the branches<\/p>\n<p>To flutter in the breeze as my heart shudders with its strings<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I steer<\/p>\n<p>And the flame in my lungs outpaces the fire in my sail<\/p>\n<p>I leave it to my heart to keep going<\/p>\n<p>And I imagine that I\u2019m coming to see you standing there at the end<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly I keep on floating<\/p>\n<p>For miles more<\/p>\n<p>There are times in my life when I stand confused<\/p>\n<p>Like a ship anchored without a shore<\/p>\n<p>But baby if I am to continue on sailing<\/p>\n<p>Then it is no burden to explore the sea with you<\/p>\n<p>So often I find sitting, I find sleeping, and blue<\/p>\n<p>But in your eyes I see clearly just what I really need to do<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll cross every ocean<\/p>\n<p>go every mile<\/p>\n<p>If it means coming home to you<\/p>\n<p>Our home stretches between a space that fills the sea<\/p>\n<p>Under darkness and daybreak<\/p>\n<p>Sky under water<\/p>\n<p>Light over streams<\/p>\n<p>Float with me<\/p>\n<p>Float with me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Friedman When I think about you I can see the miles that are laid out in time before me And when you smile I can feel the leaves break free from the branches To flutter in the breeze as my heart shudders with its strings Sometimes when I steer And the flame in my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/catamaran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catamaran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360","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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/362"}],"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=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}