{"id":137989332,"date":"2024-04-28T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137989332"},"modified":"2024-08-27T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:48:22","slug":"f-is-for-fledglings-and-fail-in-the-a-to-z-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/f-is-for-fledglings-and-fail-in-the-a-to-z-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledglings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Fledglings<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">April&#8217;s offspring dream<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">of dancing on sunshine-lofted<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">currents swirling, rising<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">clinging to the billowing curve<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">of cumulus clouds. Tentative,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">new-fledged wings unfold,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">try the gentle breeze, testing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">tender feathers, ruffled,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">teetering at the nest&#8217;s edge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Flicker-tail balanced, perched &#8211;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">hungry to wet the beak,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to sprinkle feathers in the garden bath<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">after a fruitful morning<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a stealthy cat has a nose for rain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Today&#8217;s poem is brought to you by the words: Birth, Offspring, Feathers, Unfold, Sprinkle, Fruitful, Beak, Nose, Tail, and Perch from <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecopychallenge.wordpress.com\/2024\/04\/23\/writing-prompt-creative-copy-challenge-705\/\">Writing Prompt \u2013 Creative Copy Challenge #705 | Writing Prompts &#8211; Creative Copy Challenge (wordpress.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poem, &#8220;The Fledglings,&#8221; using last week&#8217;s Creative Copy Challenge prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137989333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2717,2716],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137989332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a2zchallenge","tag-atozchallenge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 23:19:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137989332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137989332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137989332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990094,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137989332\/revisions\/137990094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137989333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137989332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137989332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137989332"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137989332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}