{"id":22746,"date":"2021-04-27T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=22746"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:29:39","slug":"napowrimo-day-twenty-seven-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=22746","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make up for yesterday&#8217;s late post, how about a super early one today? And triggered by the prompt given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a>! Woot!  What&#8217;s not to like about a sorrow thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ringlorn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the one depicted in old stories and folktales\u2014a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths and omens and fates, where everyday life felt like a quest for glory, a mythic bond with an ancient past, or a battle for survival against a clear enemy, rather than an open-ended parlor game where all the rules are made up and the points don\u2019t matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it had to happen like this (even if in extended-haiku form): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where are my dragons?<br \/>\nWhere is my brooding chieftain?<br \/>\nWhere my ancient song?<br \/>\nIs this journeying<br \/>\nthe map of forever times<br \/>\nbefore the namings?<br \/>\nBefore the hours known<br \/>\nwhen time arched but endlessly<br \/>\nwhen days were but one<br \/>\nlet me quench my thirst<br \/>\nfor the momentary joys<br \/>\nand peace of nightfall<br \/>\nlet me drink in lust<br \/>\nlike the rage of long battle<br \/>\nlet me smooth your brow<br \/>\nin the stillest night<br \/>\nyou won&#8217;t hear my quiet prayer<br \/>\nfor your safe keeping<br \/>\nbut know that I pray<br \/>\nand watch for you on the road<br \/>\nholding tight that joy<br \/>\nThe night full of prayer<br \/>\nThe raging of dragons long<br \/>\nThe happiness of return<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155.jpg\" title=\"Dandelion\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make up for yesterday&#8217;s late post, how about a super early one today? And triggered by the prompt given by NaPoWriMo! Woot! What&#8217;s not to like about a sorrow thusly: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows ringlorn adj. the wish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=22746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,222,63,144,550,65,147,621,51],"tags":[1159,202,539,205,541,192,663],"class_list":["post-22746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-gardens-and-flowers","category-haiku","category-life-around-us","category-lotr","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-taking-time-to-look","category-the-creative-process","tag-dandelion","tag-dothework","tag-haiku","tag-lotr-2","tag-napowrimo","tag-process","tag-takingtimetolook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_3155.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-5US","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22748,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions\/22748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}