{"id":137990465,"date":"2025-05-24T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137990465"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:57:55","slug":"quintilla-migrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/quintilla-migrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintilla: Migrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-137990468 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/migrant-1.jpg\" alt=\"Poem, &quot;Migrant,&quot; by Holly Jahangiri\n\nMigrants\n\nBluebonnets spread their azure hue,\nwarm Texas breezes give their cue:\nblooms bow their heads and turn as one\nto welcome back the morning sun\nas bees share news and sip the dew.\n\nSweet honey, amber, wildflowers\ninfused with habaneros\u2019 fire - \nOlympus\u2019 gods would trade their powers,\nto steal bees\u2019 nectar, risk Queen\u2019s ire,\nand while away their golden hours.\n\nThere they lie, in fields of clover,\nsated now their plundering\u2019s over.\nExhausted, too, the Queen of bees\nfinds refuge, shade in nearby trees.\nHunger of her hive\u2019s what drove her.\n\nAcross the meadow, wings in flight\nbeat time and urge them on. The hive\nhums a dirge. If only they could fight\nthey would, with all their tiny might\nkeep Queen and hive, their home, alive.\n\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/migrant-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/migrant-1-980x1225.jpg 980w, https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/migrant-1-480x600.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1080px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1080px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1080\/1350;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are not here to harm us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137990467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[2742],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137990465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-atoz2025"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 18:57:33","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\/137990465","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=137990465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990470,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990465\/revisions\/137990470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990465"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137990465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}