{"id":2240,"date":"2026-03-08T03:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:22:49","slug":"chai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/chai\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I said nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">something wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her face\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My mind\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">smaller room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A thought dies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in my throat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What happened?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning. Chai. Steam. Quiet. Her eyes. Pause. \u201cWhat?\u201d Nothing. I said nothing. Still\u2014 something wrong. Tone. Word. Look. Which? I search. Yesterday. Last night. Three years. Nothing. Her face\u2014 injured. Certain. My mind\u2014 Confused. Explanation. Another. Another. No. Silence. Distance smaller room. Later\u2014 Soft again. Almost warm. Almost normal. A thought dies in my throat: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/chai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHAI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}