{"id":302,"date":"2024-04-26T04:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T18:44:49","slug":"morning-becomes-iphigenia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/editors-choice\/morning-becomes-iphigenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning becomes Iphigenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Somoshree Palit<\/h5>\n<p>I am an offering. A bowl of blasphemy.<br \/>\nThe gods had joined the human race \u2013<br \/>\nO to plant a kiss on each trembling cheek!<br \/>\nI have utter disgust for each face.<br \/>\nO the food&#8217;s a mess \u2013 how will they eat?<br \/>\nI wish their idols snapped in two.<br \/>\nIn sacred chants their gazes I meet,<br \/>\nO to choke their throats till they turn blue \u2013<br \/>\nO to taste those eyes, soft lips with mine!<br \/>\nTo gouge them out with my nails and claws \u2013<br \/>\nMy fingers claw at their intestines :<br \/>\nFor you my chosen slavery. For you my jaws.<\/p>\n<p>Devotion. Libation. Ash in the air.<br \/>\nThey say there&#8217;s blood on my hands. <em>As if it stops right there. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somoshree Palit I am an offering. A bowl of blasphemy. The gods had joined the human race \u2013 O to plant a kiss on each trembling cheek! I have utter disgust for each face. O the food&#8217;s a mess \u2013 how will they eat? I wish their idols snapped in two. In sacred chants their&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/editors-choice\/morning-becomes-iphigenia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morning becomes Iphigenia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/456"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}