{"id":350,"date":"2024-11-20T22:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:28:50","slug":"i-am-there","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/i-am-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-size: 14pt\">by Ryley Craig<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am there<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">blanketed in the rich scent of bonfire smoke and you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">we sway on this podium of overgrown grass<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">as the trees stand still and watch us stumble our steps to the music of an easy silence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Even your gaze a soft delicacy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The caress of your hand against my cheek<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And I am gifted the clarity of my beauty<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The seconds morph into minutes yet reality seems a distant dream<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Until on the tip of Earth&#8217;s tongue, the morning creeps in and we are forced out of our vacuum<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">the skies blush and I feel as though it is only reflecting off me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">and now I must coddle this snow globe on the pillars of moments I yearn to go back to so dearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Only to be entranced by the dancing stars that paint us as I shake it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In my dreams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am coated in stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And in you<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryley Craig I am there blanketed in the rich scent of bonfire smoke and you. we sway on this podium of overgrown grass as the trees stand still and watch us stumble our steps to the music of an easy silence Even your gaze a soft delicacy The caress of your hand against my <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/i-am-there\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}