{"id":3417,"date":"2019-02-04T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:04:56","slug":"the-swans-on-the-seine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/02\/04\/the-swans-on-the-seine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swans On The Seine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cO ugly ducklings grown into beauty, are ye homesick too?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thus I, standing in the shadows of the House of Quasimodo, watching you glide upon these placid waters, O snow-winged sisters of my soul!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSwans fly south for the winter\u201d You, of whom I first read in the sun-baked plains of my homeland, a world soaked in the scents of masala and mangoes \u2013 in this city of eternal Autumn, you have made yourselves a second Spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You know not my home, O Daughters of Winter. I know not yours. Yet here the twain shall meet, Once Upon a September.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Hibah Shabkhez <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hibah is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cO ugly ducklings grown into beauty, are ye homesick too?\u201d Thus I, standing in the shadows of the House of Quasimodo, watching you glide upon these placid waters, O snow-winged sisters of my soul! \u201cSwans fly south for the winter\u201d You, of whom I first read in the sun-baked plains of my homeland, a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[830,2592,1564,1419,41,7625,134,5243,7624,7626,7630,7629,1057,7627,7628,7623,3804,1066,4696,1004,3421,1148,7622,6332,731,3880],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-autumn","tag-beauty","tag-city","tag-ducklings","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hibah-shabkhez","tag-home","tag-homeland","tag-homesick","tag-house-of-quasimodo","tag-mangoes","tag-masala","tag-plains","tag-quasimodo","tag-scents","tag-seine","tag-september","tag-shadows","tag-sisters","tag-soul","tag-south","tag-spring","tag-swans","tag-waters","tag-winter","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}