{"id":400,"date":"2022-12-18T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T23:16:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/fall-2022\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>We Are From<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-extra-small-font-size\">A collective poem by the Honors 120-FR7 class, Fall 2022\nInspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeellalyon.com\/where.html\">\u201cWhere I\u2019m From\u201d<\/a> by George Ella Lyon &amp; the <a href=\"https:\/\/iamfromproject.com\/\">I Am From Project<\/a> <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We are from rain, beautiful trees, kids running around, lakes, \nCows, horses, camels, and deer, \nCookie cutter houses, meth houses, cardboard boxes,\nCops, gun shots, and trains,\nWeed, cigs, wax melts, freshly mowed grass, and Bath and Body \n     Works seasonal candles,\nDaddy,\nBean fields and bonfires, \nThe basement shooting range,\nCorn. I second corn more corn even more corn, corn for me too. \n Yes corn. Corn indeed. Perhaps some corn how about some corn?\nTractors, 4-wheelers, hay bales, barns, hills, and gravel roads,\nBig City Buildings, bright lights, green peppermints!\nLate night talks,\nDiversity,\nPineapple, seashells, anchors, boats, and SpongeBob.\n\nWe are from liver dumplings and sweet potatoes,\nChicken adobo and pork burgers,\nSpaghetti, Pizza, Mac N Chz,\nMakloba, Mansaf, Mashed potatoes,\nRice, rice cakes, rice balls, rice soup, rice paper, Jollof Rice,\nRibs, pork loin, steak ribeye,\nSweet potato pie, oatmeal creme pies, capri-sun\nFried chicken,\nDeer sausage, deer stew, rabbit and duck\nStir-fry, Pad Thai, and Squirrel. \n\nWe are from phrases like: Bubba, suck it up, grow the fuck up, do better.\nI\u2019m not raising a boy, I\u2019m raising a young lady.\nLose weight. You\u2019re not trying hard enough.\nLOL\n\uc548\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694 - that\u2019s hello in Korean\n\nDirt don\u2019t hurt, don\u2019t be a bitch\nYou\u2019re a disappointment. Be more like your brother.\nDon\u2019t be like your sister, be better than her, \nIf your friend jumped off a cliff would you follow? YES.\n\nWhat are your grades? A B!! You\u2019re grounded.\nSon did you finish math homework?\n\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438 \u043f\u043e-\u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438!! - speak Russian!!\nYour arm may hurt but you get off of your ass and go catch the damn pitcher, we can\u2019t lose.\nWhen you get rich after you graduate I better get my monthly check when I\u2019m old. \nRub some dirt on it, stop eating, play the piano for 5 more hours.\n\nYou're all alcoholics. You\u2019re a Jackass.\nLess of that, more of not that.\nFuck off you little fuckers,\nI brought you into this world, I can take you out of it. \n\u201cI not one of your little friends.\u201d \nI can\u2019t handle a depressed child.\n\n\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0643\u0645 - Hello\n\u062d\u0628\u064a\u0628\u064a - Habibi- My love\nI Love You\n\nIf you don\u2019t have anything nice to say, don\u2019t say it at all\n\nYou are my sunshine, you\u2019re a bitch\nGet your ass up, read the damn book, turn your Life 360 back on now.\nYou become a doctor son.\nWalk it off, stop the cap, sometimes who we are is the best we can be.\n\u201cGive him his sticks.\u201d\nI\u2019m proud of you for just being you - I Love You\n\nWe are learning that discipline = wisdom = success and Mama didn\u2019t raise no bitch.\nMoney doesn't equal happiness,\nNobody is gonna do it for you.\n\nJust because you were smart in high school doesn\u2019t mean you will be smart in college.\nI don\u2019t need straight A\u2019s to pass. I am the disappointment already. \nB\u2019s get degrees not C\u2019s.\n\nNo pain no gain\nLearning from mistakes is the only way to improve, mistakes are what makes life = life\nBe okay with being wrong.\nYou can get through anything with God.\n\nLife happens when we are too busy doing everything else,\nEveryone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth\nFuck it we ball.\n\nNowhere with this climate change.\nYou can\u2019t trust the news.\nYour political opinion will lose you friends (and a girlfriend!).\n\nLove wins.\nHaving a few close friends is better than a bunch of mediocre friends.\nScience is real, Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, Women\u2019s rights are Human Rights, No Human is illegal, Kindness is everything.\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are From A collective poem by the Honors 120-FR7 class, Fall 2022 Inspired by \u201cWhere I\u2019m From\u201d by George Ella Lyon &amp; the I Am From Project We are from rain, beautiful trees, kids running around, lakes, Cows, horses, camels, and deer, Cookie cutter houses, meth houses, cardboard boxes, Cops, gun shots, and trains,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/fall-2022\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"parent":359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}