{"id":443,"date":"2023-12-08T23:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2023-12-08T23:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:11:36","slug":"daydreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/daydreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Daydreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>James Friedman<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When she holds close I can feel both of our hearts beat<\/p>\n<p>When she sleeps my arms carry her dreams to shore<\/p>\n<p>In every thought of every second of every day<\/p>\n<p>I thought I\u2019d loved her up<\/p>\n<p>Yet ever so I love her more<\/p>\n<p>If what once was<\/p>\n<p>Was once without her<\/p>\n<p>Then no part of me remains<\/p>\n<p>The past is gone<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got her hands to hold on to<\/p>\n<p>I see the smile on her face<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve yet to know how I have lived before living<br \/>\nthis day<\/p>\n<p>To go on a way without her is to veil the setting sun<\/p>\n<p>To submerge the highest mountain<\/p>\n<p>And make a masterpiece undone<\/p>\n<p>Even when across the tabletop I paint the fears that<br \/>\npressure me<\/p>\n<p>All she sees is my eyes cast upon her lovingly<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not yet whole without her<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s a wish unto me now<\/p>\n<p>A comet\u2019s grace and luster<\/p>\n<p>ever so in her abounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Friedman When she holds close I can feel both of our hearts beat When she sleeps my arms carry her dreams to shore In every thought of every second of every day I thought I\u2019d loved her up Yet ever so I love her more If what once was Was once without her Then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/daydreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daydreams&#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-443","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"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=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}