{"id":273,"date":"2026-04-21T23:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:22:43","slug":"grenneth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/fiction\/grenneth\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenneth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000080\">Dina Dominguez<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Living in a 2 million dollar home, Granny, short for Grenneth, was on the 11th floor of her<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">residence, knitting it up beside the clouds. She was flopped in the corner in her bright lime green<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">rocking chair. The 10-foot window facing her, and a shelf no smaller than the Titanic behind her.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">It was filled with tons of heels. Green heels, purple heels, kitten heels, stilettos, platform<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">nine-inchers, and even pepper steppers. Grenneth was a sweet old lady. She sat in her bright<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">green rocking chair every morning, working on small sweaters for homeless dogs. To everyone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">in the neighborhood, she was this sweet old lady who helped street dogs combat the winter with<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">fuzzy knitted sweaters, but what the neighborhood didn\u2019t know was that Grenneth got down.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">Even though she was 86, she still knew how to have fun. She spent her days pondering and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">knitting in her bright lime-green rocking chair alongside the clouds, but by night, she was at the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">club partying it up in her nine-inch bright Barbie pink heels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dina Dominguez Living in a 2 million dollar home, Granny, short for Grenneth, was on the 11th floor of her residence, knitting it up beside the clouds. She was flopped in the corner in her bright lime green rocking chair. The 10-foot window facing her, and a shelf no smaller than the Titanic behind her.&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/fiction\/grenneth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grenneth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}