{"id":8229,"date":"2015-06-13T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2017-07-28T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:42:06","slug":"the-five-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-five-singers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Amy Winehouse<\/strong><br \/>\nDead before I ever heard<br \/>\nyour name, that voice.<br \/>\nDid you die in vain?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Tracy Chapman<\/strong><br \/>\nI want you to sit down,<br \/>\nhave tea, sing some poetry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Ronnie Gilbert<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can\u2019t be gone.<br \/>\nNot now, not ever.<br \/>\nEven if I forget my own name<br \/>\nI\u2019ll close my eyes and hear \u201cGoodnight Irene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Joan Armatrading<\/strong><br \/>\nMa Me O Beach, lucky enough<br \/>\nto walk under ladders, I\u2019m taking<br \/>\nmy baby uptown, leaving the<br \/>\nempty highway behind.<br \/>\nThanks to you, I know<br \/>\nwhen I get it right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Hildegarde<\/strong><br \/>\nA 93-year-old woman in<br \/>\nHospice care, speaking mostly French,<br \/>\nremembers you singing in a cabaret,<br \/>\ncirca 1952, the big war over, the cold<br \/>\nwar just begun. You charmed the men<br \/>\nand inspired the women. First to sing<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll Be Seeing You,\u201d how is it possible<br \/>\nyou never recorded it for posterity?<br \/>\nWe can only listen to others sing it<br \/>\nand pretend it\u2019s you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Amy Winehouse Dead before I ever heard your name, that voice. Did you die in vain? 2. Tracy Chapman I want you to sit down, have tea, sing some poetry. 3. Ronnie Gilbert You can\u2019t be gone. Not now, not ever. Even if I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30571,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/30571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}