{"id":4048,"date":"2021-04-01T23:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T04:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:54:17","slug":"social-compost-an-abecedarian-poem-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/social-compost-an-abecedarian-poem-atozchallenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Compost (an Abecedarian Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absolutes<\/strong>: we deal in<br \/>\nBlack and white.<br \/>\nColor &#8211; once vibrant &#8211; now<br \/>\nDimmed to dull gray<br \/>\nEffluence &#8211; our<br \/>\nFlaws flowing, fulgent &#8211;<br \/>\nGarish graffiti on our souls.<br \/>\nHave mercy.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ironic:<br \/>\nJustice, blind, can&#8217;t see<br \/>\nKeenly how, by their absence,<br \/>\nLacunae have tipped the scales &#8211;<br \/>\nMaking chaos out of order.<br \/>\nNot till the eleventh hour &#8211;<br \/>\n<em>Ostensibly, too late<\/em> &#8211;<br \/>\nPractically past all hope,<br \/>\nQuestioning the who, what, where, and why of it<br \/>\nRestores her sight, and now<br \/>\nShows clearly <em>how<\/em><br \/>\nTenacious tendrils of apathy<br \/>\nUnseen, like dandelion roots or<br \/>\nVaricose vines,<br \/>\nWrap around the wooden heart &#8211;<br \/>\nXylophagus. Rot, in the end, reduced to<br \/>\nZero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The abecedarian is an ancient poetic form guided by alphabetical order. Generally each line or stanza begins with the first letter of the alphabet and is followed by the successive letter, until the final letter is reached.&#8221; (From https:\/\/poets.org\/glossary\/abecedarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:49:51","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\/4048","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=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990089,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/137990089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}