{"id":3622,"date":"2013-12-24T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2013-12-24T13:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:31:46","slug":"the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"The Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"the_blues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/the_blues.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3623 alignleft\" alt=\"the_blues\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/the_blues-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/the_blues-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/the_blues-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much of what is said here<br \/> must be said twice,<br \/> a reminder that no one<br \/> takes an immediate interest in the pain of others.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody will listen, it would seem,<br \/> if you simply admit<br \/> your baby left you early this morning<br \/> she didn\u2019t even stop to say good-bye.<\/p>\n<p>But if you sing it again<br \/> with the help of the band<br \/> which will now lift you to a higher,<br \/> more ardent, and beseeching key,<\/p>\n<p>people will not only listen,<br \/> they will shift to the sympathetic<br \/> edges of their chairs,<br \/> moved to such acute anticipation<\/p>\n<p>by that chord and the delay that follows,<br \/> they will not be able to sleep<br \/> unless you release with one finger<br \/> a scream from the throat of your guitar<\/p>\n<p>and turn your head back to the microphone<br \/> to let them know<br \/> you\u2019re a hard-hearted man<br \/> but that woman\u2019s sure going to make you cry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Billy Collins<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}