This theme has different types of post formats, and “Status” is one of them. Now that I have discovered this, I expect to post here more often.
ETA: though it seems, on further exploration of this post type, that they do not allow comments or permalinks. So perhaps I will not use them as often as I thought; more likely they will be used to update people as to the status of the blog if there’s a post hiatus, or the like.