{"id":6340,"date":"2014-03-25T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2014-03-25T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:56:26","slug":"poem-epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/poem-epitaph\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/12\/rip-natalia-gorbanevskaya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natalya Gorbanevskaya<\/a>, upon the death in 1983 of <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/08\/five-minutes-of-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vadim Delone<\/a>, her fellow democracy protestor from August 1968.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Epitaph<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(On the death of Vadim Delaunay)<\/em><br \/>\nCloser than a brother, the first and youngest<br \/>\nof us seven, whence no return.<br \/>\nSweeter than sweet life, whereas there were seven,<br \/>\nhacking, digging the frozen earth?<br \/>\nTo fall asleep that way, and to wake, detached from the earth,<br \/>\nbeyond exile, KPP, barbed-wire . . .<br \/>\nbeyond the thorny stars.\u00a0 Pray for us,<br \/>\noffer your fraternal help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Reference: <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nNatalya Gorbanevskaya [1983\/2011]:\u00a0 <em>Selected Poems<\/em>. Translated by Daniel Weissbort.\u00a0 Manchester, UK: Carcanet.<br \/>\nKPP\u00a0 (Kontrol&#8217;no-propusknoi punkt) is Frontier Control Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written by Natalya Gorbanevskaya, upon the death in 1983 of Vadim Delone, her fellow democracy protestor from August 1968. Epitaph (On the death of Vadim Delaunay) Closer than a brother, the first and youngest of us seven, whence no return. Sweeter than sweet life, whereas there were seven, hacking, digging the frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-poetry","p1","y2014","m03","d25","h15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}