{"id":8148,"date":"2025-06-07T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=8148"},"modified":"2025-06-07T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:32:26","slug":"jiffy-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=8148","title":{"rendered":"Jiffy-Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:135px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Jiffy-Pop<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">My mind is a silver balloon of Jiffy-Pop&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Set to explode,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Ideas snapping and popping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Before fully formed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">To emerge at last<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Into something tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Some kernels fail<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">And emerge stillborn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Failed in their promise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">And destined for the trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Most are ready for eager mouths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">And live a brief life of glory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Before their end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3eeaf594e2737b5f11578ec106f1910a wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\">Click here to return Home<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiffy-Pop My mind is a silver balloon of Jiffy-Pop&nbsp; Set to explode, Ideas snapping and popping Before fully formed To emerge at last Into something tasty. Some kernels fail And emerge stillborn Failed in their promise And destined for the trash. Most are ready for eager mouths And live a brief life of glory Before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213552057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38787,9802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-my-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdzkeJ-27q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213552057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}