{"id":1464,"date":"2017-05-31T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:18:32","slug":"osip-mandelstam-all-i-want-to-do-is-escape-the-madness-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1464\/poems\/osip-mandelstam-all-i-want-to-do-is-escape-the-madness-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Osip Mandelstam: All I want to do is escape the madness here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I want to do is<br \/>\nescape the madness here.<br \/>\nTo rise into the light<br \/>\nwhere I can disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Where you can be like light &#8211;<br \/>\nand happiness is mine! &#8211;<br \/>\nand learn from every star<br \/>\nwhat it means to shine.<\/p>\n<p>All I want to say is,<br \/>\nthe whispering you hear &#8211;<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the sound of light<br \/>\nI whisper in your ear.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that makes us light<br \/>\nthe thing that makes us shine<br \/>\nis that I whisper words<br \/>\nand that this voice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1320436270l\/254039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" \/><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/254039.The_Stray_Dog_Cabaret\">The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(New York Review Books Classics)<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Paul Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I want to do is escape the madness here. To rise into the light where I can disappear. Where you can be like light &#8211; and happiness is mine! &#8211; and learn from every star what it means to shine. All I want to say is, the whispering you hear &#8211; that&#8217;s the sound <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1464\/poems\/osip-mandelstam-all-i-want-to-do-is-escape-the-madness-here\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}