{"id":431,"date":"2025-11-17T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/?page_id=431"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:28:50","slug":"of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace;font-size: 14pt;color: #800000\">Rick Reut<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">(OF THE NIGHT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">\u2026where doorbell rings<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">shine in the ears<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">of the night. Fears<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">seem to have wings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">You know they\u2019re here<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">when every sound<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">falls to the ground<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">level of sheer<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">madness. Your head<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">then turns around<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">the shadowy bed-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">room. Once they found<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">you hiding behind<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">a shuddering blind\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">\u2026where doorbell rings shine in the ears of the night. Fears seem to have wings. You know they\u2019re here when every sound falls to the ground level of sheer madness. Your head then turns around the shadowy bedroom. Once they found you hiding behind a shuddering blind\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nRick Reut (OF THE NIGHT) \u2026where doorbell rings shine in the ears of the night. Fears seem to have wings.&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/of-the-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Of the Night&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-431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions\/436"}],"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=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}