{"id":76,"date":"2008-02-11T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T01:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-02-11T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:20:16","slug":"concernant-le-heleniad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Concernant le Heleniad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now that Sally has run my work through an automatic translator, I suppose I must provide an proper translation, if only to defend the honor of my muse.  But if you want to get the <i>poetry<\/i> of this, you&#8217;ll need to go back to my entry of February 8 and read the original in French.<\/p>\n<pre><em><big>\r\n\"I shall speak in French\r\nIt is the language of truth\r\nTo say to you what I know\"\r\nThus the demon said\r\n\r\n\"It is the time for you to hear\r\nIt is the moment for you to understand\r\nYour dreams which I wish to take\"\r\nThen the demon laughed\r\n\r\nThe girl was pensive\r\n\"Seventeen years\" she repeated\r\n\"That is many years\r\nAnd life is brief\"\r\n\r\nThe boy said \"My love\r\nI speak to you from my heart\r\nYou know that I adore you\r\nHas it all been a dream?\"\r\n\r\nIn a day a life can change\r\nAll is rearranged\r\nA dream is disturbed\r\nAnd love is dissolved\r\n\r\nThe night was somber\r\nThe world was in shadow\r\nWhat is in a number?\r\nSadly, perhaps everything.\r\n\r\n<\/big><\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now that Sally has run my work through an automatic translator, I suppose I must provide an proper translation, if only to defend the honor of my muse. But if you want to get the poetry of this, you&#8217;ll need to go back to my entry of February 8 and read the original in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concernant le Heleniad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}