{"id":2180,"date":"2022-04-08T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/724-first-song-miguel-hernandez-spain\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:43:43","slug":"724-first-song-miguel-hernandez-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/724-first-song-miguel-hernandez-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"724 | First Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The field has retreated<br \/>\nseeing it is man\u2019s<br \/>\nconvulsive assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What an abyss is laid bare<br \/>\nbetween the olive tree and man!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The animal that sings:<br \/>\nthe animal that can<br \/>\ncry and take root<br \/>\nrecalls its claws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Claws that it covered<br \/>\nwith smoothness and flowers,<br \/>\nbut which, in the end, he bares<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in all their cruelty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They crackle in my hands.<br \/>\nKeep away from them, boy.<br \/>\nI am ready to flash them,<br \/>\ninto your soft flesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve turned into a tiger.<br \/>\nMove away, or I&#8217;ll tear you apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today love is death,<br \/>\nand man lies in ambush for man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, <\/strong>Spain, 1910 \u2013 <strong>28.3.<\/strong>1942<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field has retreated seeing it is man\u2019s convulsive assault. What an abyss is laid bare between the olive tree and man! The animal that sings: the animal that can cry and take root recalls its claws. Claws that it covered with smoothness and flowers, but which, in the end, he bares in all their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poemas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}