{"id":11401,"date":"2013-04-24T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2013-04-24T13:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T17:08:59","slug":"syria-by-eugenio-montale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11401","title":{"rendered":"Syria by Eugenio Montale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said, the ancients, that poetry<br \/>\nis a ladder to God. Maybe it&#8217;s not like that<br \/>\nwhen you read mine. But the day I knew it,<br \/>\nthat I had recovered my voice through you&#8211;loose<br \/>\nas I was in a flock of clouds and goats<br \/>\ncrashing out of a ravine to graze on dribble<br \/>\nof thornbush and bulrush, and the lean faces<br \/>\nof the moon and sun were fusing together&#8211;<br \/>\nthat day the car broke down and an arrow<br \/>\nof blood on a boulder marked the road to Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;<em>Siria<\/em>,&#8221; from <em>La bufera e altro<\/em>, 1956, translated by Peter Levine)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Montale.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11402\" alt=\"Montale\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Montale.png\" width=\"303\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Montale.png 303w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Montale-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said, the ancients, that poetry is a ladder to God. Maybe it&#8217;s not like that when you read mine. But the day I knew it, that I had recovered my voice through you&#8211;loose as I was in a flock of clouds and goats crashing out of a ravine to graze on dribble of thornbush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}