{"id":1466,"date":"2017-06-12T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:17:56","slug":"anna-akhmatova-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1466\/poems\/anna-akhmatova-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Akhmatova: Music (For Dmitri Shostakovich)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something miraculous burns in music;<br \/>\nas you watch, its edges crystallize.<br \/>\nOnly music speaks to me<br \/>\nwhen others turn away their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>When fearful friends abandoned me<br \/>\nmusic stayed, even at my grave,<br \/>\nand sang like earth&#8217;s first shower of rain<br \/>\nor flowers suddenly everywhere alive.<\/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\" \/><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><\/p>\n<p>(New York Review Books Classics)<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Paul Schmidt.<\/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>Something miraculous burns in music; as you watch, its edges crystallize. Only music speaks to me when others turn away their eyes. When fearful friends abandoned me music stayed, even at my grave, and sang like earth&#8217;s first shower of rain or flowers suddenly everywhere alive. &nbsp; The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1466\/poems\/anna-akhmatova-music\/' 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-1466","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\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}