{"id":155,"date":"2025-10-23T23:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:43:57","slug":"new-playmate-mondo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/new-playmate-mondo\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PLAYMATE [ MONDO ]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace;font-size: 14pt;color: #800000\">Dee Allen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Why did the little<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Girl drop her stuffed bear and blow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Soap bubbles at the roof\u2019s edge?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Little Teddy can\u2019t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Leap as high and catch them like<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">The magic grey gargoyle can\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">______________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">W: 8.27.25<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">[ Inspired by the painting Gargoyles by Michael Parkes. ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Mondo: A Japanese short poem in 6 lines, 2 stanzas. First 3 lines ask a question. Last 3 lines give an answer. Written in 5-7-7-5-7-7 syllable sequence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nDee Allen Why did the little Girl drop her stuffed bear and blow Soap bubbles at the roof\u2019s edge? &nbsp;&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/new-playmate-mondo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;NEW PLAYMATE &rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/202"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}