{"id":465,"date":"2023-12-09T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2023-12-09T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:15:12","slug":"suspended","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Kathryn Stangel<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>His hands moved silently, brushing over the keys<\/p>\n<p>Like a duster swiftly spilling dirt-filled sills<\/p>\n<p>Fingertips like feathers fall like autumn leaves<\/p>\n<p>Delicate melodies pervading the quiet still<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes moved wordlessly towards his sun-tanned hands<\/p>\n<p>She watched as music formed beneath the black and white<\/p>\n<p>Mesmerized by sweet sounds wherever his fingers land<\/p>\n<p>Each note reminiscing on a memory that time forgot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies moved in rhythm, swaying to the beat<\/p>\n<p>Keeping perfect time with each measure<\/p>\n<p>Their legs like magnets, an inseparable feat<\/p>\n<p>Their interlocking gaze- a bond that couldn\u2019t be severed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A suspended note fades into the air<\/p>\n<p>His hands laid still, her eyes turned aside<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies which once an inseparable pair<\/p>\n<p>Now forced to bid goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The music has ended. The memory is in the past<\/p>\n<p>How sweet is the melody of love- if only it could last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Stangel His hands moved silently, brushing over the keys Like a duster swiftly spilling dirt-filled sills Fingertips like feathers fall like autumn leaves Delicate melodies pervading the quiet still &nbsp; Her eyes moved wordlessly towards his sun-tanned hands She watched as music formed beneath the black and white Mesmerized by sweet sounds wherever his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/suspended\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suspended&#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-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"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=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}