{"id":25974,"date":"2023-05-15T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T20:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/?p=25974"},"modified":"2023-05-16T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:24:42","slug":"4-am-cheese-quest-by-gema-ortega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/4-am-cheese-quest-by-gema-ortega\/","title":{"rendered":"4 am Cheese Quest by Gema Ortega Guzman"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I hunger for cheese, awake in the night.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">Shall I travel to the kitchen or stay at rest?\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">Alas, my hunger is too strong.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">The path for cheese is dark and dangerous, but the path I will undergo, lest my hunger <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">strengthen.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">In the darkness I quake.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">Heavy faces in the dark frighten me.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I long to emboss the cheese.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">For this longing, I quicken.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I arrive at the kitchen and open the fridge.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">The cool wind clears my mind and a bright white light shines on my face <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">blinding me and causing me to coil.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I stare at the bag, sitting like a fair maiden.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I reach for the bag o\u2019er wrought with hunger, and consume it.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">The cheese is cold and fresh but soft on the lips <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">and my hunger is vanquished.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I shall return from whence I came, for I am satisfied.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">The path does not shake me as it did mere minutes ago.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">I retire to my chambers and enter into a restful, easy sleep.\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Lato; font-size: 14pt;\">The night is good, I shall sleep well.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hunger for cheese, awake in the night. Shall I travel to the kitchen or stay at rest? Alas, my hunger is too strong. The path for cheese is dark and dangerous, but the path I will undergo, lest my hunger strengthen. In the darkness I quake. Heavy faces in the dark frighten me. I&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/4-am-cheese-quest-by-gema-ortega\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-25974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-freshman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26002,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974\/revisions\/26002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimsreview.aims.edu\/incite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}