{"id":1898,"date":"2025-12-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:01:27","slug":"12-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/12-12-25\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/12\/25 A New Haiku for a New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?fit=840%2C532&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1899\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5770945787373856;width:428px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C649&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C487&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C974&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1299&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C761&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/crackeddoor.com\/daily-haikus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/grayscale-photo-of-destroyed-city-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/grayscale-photo-of-city-CzsHs8A87Y0\">Museums Victoria<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Oh beautiful city<br>Towers of human ingenuity<br>Rising step by step<br>To discover its true embrace&nbsp;in<br>Death<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Blast from the Past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Perfect, synchronized<br>Machinery performing<br>Humanization<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh beautiful cityTowers of human ingenuityRising step by stepTo discover its true embrace&nbsp;inDeath Blast from the Past: Perfect, synchronizedMachinery performingHumanization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_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":""},"categories":[82,77,32],"tags":[45,46,14,17,18,21,20,19],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypses","category-society","category-alternative-poems","tag-alternativepoems","tag-alternativepoetry","tag-dailypoem","tag-dailypoetry","tag-flashpoetry","tag-micropoetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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