{"id":13270,"date":"2024-10-17T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:39:50","slug":"animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Animals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lion died.<br \/>\nThe moons over the forest faded.<br \/>\nThe surface was flooded<br \/>\nwith mournful tears.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herons, rats, and hydras<br \/>\ngathered in the raspberry patch,<br \/>\npraying until morning,<br \/>\nchanting hymns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>By morning in the raspberry patch,<br \/>\neverything became unclear:<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no one to pray to,<br \/>\nno one to fear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The elephant started waltzing.<br \/>\nVermicelli &#8211; leeches<br \/>\nbegan indulging<br \/>\nin women and drunkenness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a ruler,<br \/>\ncompass, and template,<br \/>\na frightening scarecrow<br \/>\nwas drawn by the lynx.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The animals, astonished,<br \/>\nterrified beyond measure,<br \/>\nfell to their knees<br \/>\nbeside the scarecrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everything in the raspberry batch<br \/>\nbecame clear to the fullest:<br \/>\nthere is<br \/>\n    someone to pray to,<br \/>\nthere is<br \/>\n    someone to fear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Victor Sosnora (1936-2019)<\/em><br \/>\nFrom <em>In Search of Entertainment<\/em> (1960-1962)<br \/>\n(translated by and thanks to AD)<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals The lion died. The moons over the forest faded. The surface was flooded with mournful tears. Herons, rats, and hydras gathered in the raspberry patch, praying until morning, chanting hymns. By morning in the raspberry patch, everything became unclear: there&#8217;s no one to pray to, no one to fear. The elephant started waltzing. Vermicelli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2024","m10","d17","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13276,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/13276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}