{"id":369,"date":"2025-04-24T02:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=369"},"modified":"2025-04-24T02:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:27:01","slug":"beneath-the-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/beneath-the-apple-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Apple Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #003366\">By Hannah Schafer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">Beneath the old apple tree, down by the lane,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">My grandfather sat as he called out my name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">He\u2019d carve little ships out of cedar and pine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">And send them adrift on the creek\u2019s silver line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">\u201cThe wind knows its path, just as we know our own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">Though sometimes we wander where seeds have been sown.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">His voice lingers still in the shade of that tree,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #82b2bf\">A whisper of roots that still grow within me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Schafer Beneath the old apple tree, down by the lane, My grandfather sat as he called out my name. He\u2019d carve little ships out of cedar and pine, And send them adrift on the creek\u2019s silver line. &nbsp; \u201cThe wind knows its path, just as we know our own, Though sometimes we wander&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/beneath-the-apple-tree\/\">Continue Reading Beneath the Apple Tree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}