{"id":1077,"date":"2026-05-04T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:22:15","slug":"no-bairns-no-heir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/2026\/05\/04\/no-bairns-no-heir\/","title":{"rendered":"No bairns, no heir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Who are you, Beowulf?<br><em>An old soldier stood at the door<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">I was a noble warrior,&nbsp;<em>he said<\/em><br>King of the Geats, defeated just once \u2013 by death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">In my youth, I sailed across fish-pasture<br>To the land of the Danes<br>To Hrothgar\u2019s renowned mead hall Heorot<br>Half-emptied by Grendel\u2019s gluttonous murder spree<br>A night-terror who hacked dreams into corpses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">I burst Grendel\u2019s arm out of its unholy socket<br>He hobbled home broken in torment, bled to death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">That night, I shared the moonlight with my bed balm, beautiful B\u00f8sset<br>A blue-eyed beefcake, my blissful bodyguard<br>Pulsating penises stabbed passionately between oiled thighs<br>A fierce thrill of white sea spears spitting into the dark<br>His leathery reek of sweat sticks to me still<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">After I decapitated Grendel\u2019s mother in the mere<br>B\u00f8sset tutored me in the gentle intimate trust of fisting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Seven days before my fight with the dragon<br>Eye-torrents doused the splinters of his funeral pyre<br>My heart burnt to hell before the worm had its chance<br>Denied restful sleep, yet determined to die undefeated<br>His grave desire reignited the fate of my ambition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Until Ragnar\u00f6k, we shall fight the same battles<br>His lovely name like a&nbsp;<em>her\u00f3p<\/em>&nbsp;tattooed upon my tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u00a9 Julian Yaqub 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are you, Beowulf?An old soldier stood at the door I was a noble warrior,&nbsp;he saidKing of the Geats, defeated just once \u2013 by death In my youth, I sailed across fish-pastureTo the land of the DanesTo Hrothgar\u2019s renowned mead hall HeorotHalf-emptied by Grendel\u2019s gluttonous murder spreeA night-terror who hacked dreams into corpses I burst &#8230; <a title=\"No bairns, no heir\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/2026\/05\/04\/no-bairns-no-heir\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No bairns, no heir\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,11,1,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-journal","category-julian","category-llsd","category-poem"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianyaqub.net\/julian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}