{"id":212,"date":"2004-06-10T01:41:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2004-12-13T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T14:49:28","slug":"some-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Some Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered a very cool site, Seforim Online<\/a>. Downloads are a little slow, but they have lots of excellent stuff. I’ve been reading and enjoying some of Abraham Ibn Ezra<\/a>‘s poems. Look at this little gem:<\/p>\n

אִלּוּ לְפִי אֵידִי דְּמָעַי יִזְלוּן
\nלֹא דָרְכָה רֶגֶל אֱנוֹשׁ יַבֶּשֶׁת,
\nאַךְ לֹא לְמֵי נֹח לְבַד כֹּרַת בְּרִית,
\nכִּי גַם לְדִמְעִי נִרְאֲתָה הַקֶּשֶׁת.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or this question and answer, each one a perfect palindrome that reads more naturally than any palindrome I have seen in any language<\/p>\n

אבי אל חי שמך למה מלך משיח לא יבא?
\nדעו מאביכם כי לא בוש אבוש, שוב אשוב אליכם כי בא מועד.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered a very cool site, Seforim Online. Downloads are a little slow, but they have lots of excellent stuff. I’ve been reading and enjoying some of Abraham Ibn Ezra‘s poems. Look at this little gem: אִלּוּ לְפִי אֵידִי דְּמָעַי יִזְלוּן לֹא דָרְכָה רֶגֶל אֱנוֹשׁ יַבֶּשֶׁת, אַךְ לֹא לְמֵי נֹח לְבַד כֹּרַת בְּרִית, כִּי […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}