{"id":548,"date":"2009-10-11T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-10-11T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T15:37:47","slug":"orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/2009\/10\/11\/orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFor this hell,<br \/>\nFor this toll,<br \/>\nGimme an orchard<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019m old.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I\u2019m old,<br \/>\nAged with grief,  <br \/>\nWhen I\u2019m tired <br \/>\nOf hunchback years\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen I\u2019m old, <br \/>\nGimme a treasure,<br \/>\nFor the scorched years &ndash;<br \/>\na cool pleasure&hellip;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor a fugitive,<br \/>\nGive an orchard,<br \/>\nTo a faceless one,<br \/>\nGive a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>With no overseers,<br \/>\nWith no ears,<br \/>\nWith no wanderers,   <br \/>\nAnd no sneers\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCan the orchard be <br \/>\nA trade-off for pain?<br \/>\nJust a lonesome place,<br \/>\nFor a lonesome fate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust an orchard place,<br \/>\nFor my ending rest, <br \/>\nOr, perhaps, the space  <br \/>\nFor my future quest?\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"crosshead\">&mdash; Marina Tsvetaeva,<br \/>1<span class=\"footnote\">st<\/span><\/span> September 1934\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Translated by Victor Postnikov)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this hell, For this toll, Gimme an orchard When I\u2019m old. When I\u2019m old, Aged with grief, When I\u2019m tired Of hunchback years\u2026 When I\u2019m old, Gimme a treasure, For the scorched years &ndash; a cool pleasure&hellip; For a fugitive, Give an orchard, To a faceless one, Give a fortune. With no overseers, With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[77,85,111],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-marina-tsvetaeva","tag-poem","tag-victor-postnikov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stuzog.com\/dandeliontimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}