{"id":1659,"date":"2021-12-18T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2023-06-24T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T01:30:36","slug":"the-thing-about-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/the-thing-about-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The Thing About Snow\nAlessio Vega, '23\n\nThere's something to be said about snow\nThose effulgent frosted stars\nIn how they scintillate like diamonds\nThe sublime enchantress, my eyes always drawn\n\nThere is something to be said\nAbout the things that come tenfold\nSomething so common and so free\nMasks the contrast, the harbinger of cold\n\nThere is something to be said\nAbout that cold, white as snow\nWith its pinpricks of ice\nAnd unforgiving throe\n\nThere is something to be said\nAbout thoughts pessimistic and black\nWhy can the mind be so allured\nInto believing things truly drab\n\nThere is something to be said\nAbout things wrapped bright with inside a dark color\nThat come often and plentiful\nDisguised behind that beguile allure\n\nThere is something about snow\nSomething so alluring yet so cold\nLike bad thoughts we find ourselves attracted to\nEnthralled in our own inimical world\n\nWhy don\u2019t they all melt just the same...?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessio Vega, &#8217;23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}