{"id":7223,"date":"2026-10-05T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:58:18","slug":"837-song-of-the-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/837-song-of-the-horseman\/","title":{"rendered":"837 | Song of the Horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7224 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Statue-of-Federico-Garcia-Lorca-in-Madrid-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Statue-of-Federico-Garcia-Lorca-in-Madrid-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Statue-of-Federico-Garcia-Lorca-in-Madrid-200x345.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Statue-of-Federico-Garcia-Lorca-in-Madrid.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Statue of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in Madrid<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><br \/>\nSong of the Horseman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Distant and lonely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A black horse, a big moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and olives in my saddlebag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Although I know the roads<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I shall never reach C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Across the plain, through the wind,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">black horse, red moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Death is watching me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from the towers of C\u00f3rdoba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, what a long road!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, my brave horse!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, death is waiting for me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">before I reach C\u00f3rdoba!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">C\u00f3rdoba.<br \/>\nDistant and lonely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/strong>, 1898-1936, Spain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The famous Spanish poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca was executed by dictator Franco\u2019s firing squad<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statue of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in Madrid Song of the Horseman C\u00f3rdoba. Distant and lonely. A black horse, a big moon and olives in my saddlebag. Although I know the roads I shall never reach C\u00f3rdoba. Across the plain, through the wind, black horse, red moon. Death is watching me from the towers of C\u00f3rdoba. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poemas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}