{"id":275,"date":"2008-12-06T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-12-06T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T13:47:06","slug":"poem-o-batuque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/poem-o-batuque\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  O Batuque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the 2007 album, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/musicabrasileira.org\/viniciuscantuaria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cymbals<\/a><\/em>, by Brazilian guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinicius.com\/HomePage.html\">Vinicius Cantuaria<\/a>, is this sad song, <em>&#8220;O Batuque&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>The song was composed with Brazilian percussionist Nan\u00e1 Vasconcelos, and its diminished minor chords express a traveler&#8217;s sad longing for the sun and the south, from the cold,\u00a0still\u00a0north.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Se a samba e Brasileiro<br \/>\nPele e internacional<br \/>\nSalve o Amazonas<br \/>\nSalve o pantanal<br \/>\nSwing afro-cubana<br \/>\nTem reggae no carnaval<br \/>\nAlo alo Bob Marley alo<br \/>\nAlo alo Bob Marley alo<br \/>\nSaudades do Brasil<br \/>\nEu estau passando um tempo fora<br \/>\nO frio esta matando<br \/>\nE no metro ninguem me olha<br \/>\nOs pretos elegantes<br \/>\nOs latinos brilhantina<br \/>\nE um loiro americano<br \/>\nDe patins a cada esquina<br \/>\nO que e que eu estou fazendo aqui<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nThe Beat<br \/>\nIf samba means Brazil<br \/>\nPele means international<br \/>\nLong live the Amazon<br \/>\nLong live the Pantanal<br \/>\nAfro-Cuban swing<br \/>\nReggae meets Carnaval<br \/>\nHey there, Bob Marley<br \/>\nHey there, Bob Marley<br \/>\nHow I miss Brazil<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been away awhile<br \/>\nThe cold is killing me<br \/>\nNo one sees me on the subway<br \/>\nThe elegant blacks<br \/>\nThe slick Latinos<br \/>\nAnd a blonde American<br \/>\nSkating around every corner<br \/>\nWhatever am I doing here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 2007 album, Cymbals, by Brazilian guitarist Vinicius Cantuaria, is this sad song, &#8220;O Batuque&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The song was composed with Brazilian percussionist Nan\u00e1 Vasconcelos, and its diminished minor chords express a traveler&#8217;s sad longing for the sun and the south, from the cold,\u00a0still\u00a0north. Se a samba e Brasileiro Pele e internacional Salve o Amazonas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry","p1","y2008","m12","d06","h13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}