{"id":26925,"date":"2025-04-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26925"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:04:20","slug":"capturing-campus-a-dandelion-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/04\/27\/capturing-campus-a-dandelion-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Campus: A Dandelion Achievement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Dandelion Achievement&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remind you what the dandelions told me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>don\u2019t be happy<\/em>, they said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>be content instead&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>why smile when flatline lips looks so good on you<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>when other hearts shudder and thud<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>yours is still<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but I still hear you begging<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">better make me, make me better, medicate me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">make it last<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">time will scar me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">and the sun only shines half a day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s best to try<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>try to be happy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to smile through it all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to relish in hunger&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to moan as you loath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to indulge in the terror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the bleeding and belting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remind you&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to water them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but tell you they are weeds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"829\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mar-16-829x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26927\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8095703125;width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mar-16-829x1024.jpg 829w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mar-16-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mar-16-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mar-16.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dandelion Achievement&nbsp; I remind you what the dandelions told me: don\u2019t be happy, they said be content instead&nbsp; why smile when flatline lips looks so good on you when other hearts shudder and thud yours is still but I still hear you begging better make me, make me better, medicate me make it last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":25727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2034,1126,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26929,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions\/26929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}