{"id":333,"date":"2024-11-20T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:25:08","slug":"fast-breaking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/fast-breaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-size: 14pt\">by Kelly J. White<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You\u2019ve scrambled my skillet, hot peppers, cold hash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">sat me down, bound my neck with a napkin;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">chop chop in the kitchen, cleaver clunk, sizzling meat\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">you spoon clotted cream over goose eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">You pour scalded coffee, slap down your knife,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">dirty nails, you snap open your paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I sip sour milk, salty dregs in my cup<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">and anger sits down at our tablet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">We\u2019re joined by a daughter scarred with a fire tattoo,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">a son with pierced lips and shaved scalp,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">a nephew, a niece, both our dead silent fathers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">pale strangers that you never knew;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Our baby sits strapped in her splintering high chair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">she chortles, she claps, smacks her lips;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">drool drips down her chin, you scrape plates for the dog;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I scarf down our last just desserts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kelly J. White You\u2019ve scrambled my skillet, hot peppers, cold hash sat me down, bound my neck with a napkin; chop chop in the kitchen, cleaver clunk, sizzling meat\u2014 you spoon clotted cream over goose eggs. &nbsp; You pour scalded coffee, slap down your knife, dirty nails, you snap open your paper. I sip <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/fast-breaking\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}