{"id":297,"date":"2024-04-26T04:36:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/?page_id=297"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:27:45","slug":"live-as-if-it-were-anew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/live-as-if-it-were-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"live as if it were anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Lydia Hansen<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cThere are beautiful things in this earth.\u201d<br \/>\nFrom waterfalls that glisten with summer sun<br \/>\nrushing in a paved broken path.<br \/>\nTo the sunsets painted each day anew that cover the golden fields<br \/>\non countless journeyed roads.<br \/>\nFrom the dying light shown through twinkling stars above<br \/>\nof eternal matter left unknown.<br \/>\nTo the fallen tree that once stood tall<br \/>\nthrough the entirety of a childhood.<br \/>\nBy the pages of books that formed a child\u2019s future<br \/>\nfrom just ink and simple imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The chance to live a life that was never thought to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty raptured to living,<br \/>\nstood between the balance of death and life.<br \/>\nThe choice of a couple, resulting in the beginning of a chance<br \/>\nshowing the limitations that bound mankind to earth.<br \/>\nA one in five chance, one in seven-point eight billion.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are beautiful things, that, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<br \/>\nYet none quite as beautiful as the chance to live in the moment of now,<br \/>\nfor every second lost in a second never found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydia Hansen \u201cThere are beautiful things in this earth.\u201d From waterfalls that glisten with summer sun rushing in a paved broken path. To the sunsets painted each day anew that cover the golden fields on countless journeyed roads. From the dying light shown through twinkling stars above of eternal matter left unknown. To the fallen&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/live-as-if-it-were-anew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">live as if it were anew<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-297","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions\/410"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}