{"id":4649,"date":"2026-10-19T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:04:24","slug":"whats-the-mandarin-for-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=4649","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Mandarin For Orange?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">A globe of gold, spun here in autumn\u2019s light,<br>A glowing jewel plucked from southern skies,<br>With glossy skin that shines against the night<br>And tender sweetness underneath its guise.<br>A vibrant mandarin, so bold and bright,<br>Bears still one leaf of deep, enamelled green,<br>A verdant mantle perched upon its height,<br>To crown the splendour of this citrus queen.<br>It slumbers on a cloth of soft design,<br>Where patterned threads in muted colours weave,<br>A gentle splash of summer\u2019s golden shine,<br>A little sun that seems to bid us leave.<br><br>Is ORANGE what we call this sunlit sphere,<br>Or MANDARIN that crowns the passing year?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While poetry isn&#8217;t quite my trade, I do thoroughly enjoy a touch of wordplay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"{\"authors\":[579],\"author_categories\":{\"579\":\"1\"},\"fallback_author_user\":\"2\",\"ppma_author_box_select\":\"\",\"selected_authors\":[{\"id\":579,\"display_name\":\"Dan Costinas\",\"is_guest\":0,\"category_id\":\"1\"}]}"},"categories":[104,48,120,13],"tags":[622,623,183,621],"ppma_author":[579],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos-into-words","category-poetry","category-sixmorearts","category-trails","tag-iambic-pentameter","tag-mandarin","tag-orange","tag-sonnet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"authors":[{"term_id":579,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dan-costinas","display_name":"Dan Costinas","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dc.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dc.jpg"},"author_category":"1","first_name":"Dan","last_name":"Costinas","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}