{"id":111,"date":"2025-10-23T23:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:43:13","slug":"natural-irony","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/natural-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace;color: #800000\">Yaun Changming<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">All cats are fated to love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Fish as their most favorite<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Food, but they can hardly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Swim, let alone catch any<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">In the water<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 While every<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Fish loves a worm though<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">It is sure to die before it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Can find one ashore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Just<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">As I love earth like a worm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Yet I was born a caterpillar<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nYaun Changming All cats are fated to love Fish as their most favorite Food, but they can hardly Swim, let&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/natural-irony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Natural Irony&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}