{"id":3909,"date":"2026-09-05T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:37:01","slug":"chameleons-by-danny-sorby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2026\/09\/05\/chameleons-by-danny-sorby\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chameleons&#8221; by Danny Sorby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In its dying moments<br>A chameleon\u2019s colour<br>Will flux furiously<br>In a rainbow of panic<br>Neurons and electricity<br>Bursting in ecstasy<br>As the lights go out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am both in awe<br>And fearful:<br>Will my own passing<br>Be so chaotic<br>Will my own skin<br>Be so beautiful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Danny Sorby is a British poet living in Hong Kong.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its dying momentsA chameleon\u2019s colourWill flux furiouslyIn a rainbow of panicNeurons and electricityBursting in ecstasyAs the lights go out And I am both in aweAnd fearful:Will my own passingBe so chaoticWill my own skinBe so beautiful? Danny Sorby is a British poet living in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-113","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}