{"id":556,"date":"2013-07-06T00:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:37:30","slug":"basque-older-version-of-monoglot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/basque-older-version-of-monoglot\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque (Older version of &#8216;Monoglot&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I inhabit a dull mountain, beneath me<br \/>\ndim figures,<br \/>\ndistant on an innate horizon<br \/>\nshudder their breath.<\/p>\n<p>Down in the valley people are looming,<br \/>\ntheir voices<br \/>\nand the wind&#8217;s pale muttering correspond &#8211;<br \/>\nmerging together.<\/p>\n<p>Cannot the mountain zephyr understand<br \/>\nmy syllables?<br \/>\nPale grasses and trees nod to the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The colloquial shepherd ignores my salutation,<br \/>\narticulating a fine guttural monologue<br \/>\nHe bars the pass, pointing homeward<br \/>\nwith his forked crook.<\/p>\n<p>Obeying instantly, I descend winding paths,<br \/>\nsulphurous mists asphyxiate my passage.<br \/>\nGlancing upwards,<br \/>\nI see there is no return.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond mists,<br \/>\nA dark abeyance &#8211;<br \/>\nimpenetratable and silent astrides anvil skies.<br \/>\nmy shrieking vernacular<br \/>\nechoes back over sullen waters.<\/p>\n<p>I have crossed bridges &#8211;<br \/>\ndark and lecherous.<br \/>\nAnd the voice I hear is the sea,<br \/>\na nebulous discord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I inhabit a dull mountain, beneath me dim figures, distant on an innate horizon shudder their breath. Down in the valley people are looming, their voices and the wind&#8217;s pale muttering correspond &#8211; merging together. Cannot the mountain zephyr understand my syllables? Pale grasses and trees nod to the sky. The colloquial shepherd ignores my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}