{"id":1176,"date":"2007-02-17T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:35:52","slug":"a-valentine-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"A valentine rose"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> “Tell me, is the rose naked<\/span><\/div>\n
or is that her only dress?”<\/span><\/div>\n
– Pablo Neruda<\/span><\/div>\n
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– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – <\/span><\/div>\n
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Just a little something for you to ponder on a Friday night in February.<\/p>\n

Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He wrote spectacular love poems and simple humorous odes, as well as political and historical poetry. He’s been one of my favorites since college, and I remember his poetry as being among the first that I could enjoy without the benefit of a bilingual dictionary. The snippet of a poem above comes from one of the last works before his death in 1973 callled, “A Book of Questions”.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress?” – Pablo Neruda – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Just a little … Continue reading A valentine rose<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}