{"id":40267,"date":"2022-05-26T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40267"},"modified":"2022-05-22T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:37:40","slug":"a-quote-for-thursday-by-leonard-cohen-1934-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/05\/26\/a-quote-for-thursday-by-leonard-cohen-1934-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote For Thursday, by Leonard Cohen, 1934 &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>~ from <em>Stories of the Street<\/em>, Leonard Cohen, 1934 &#8211; 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~*~<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-40271 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SongsOfLeonardCohen-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SongsOfLeonardCohen-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SongsOfLeonardCohen.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>I love this quote, from the closing lines of <em>Stories of the Street<\/em>, on Leonard Cohen&#8217;s debut album, <strong>Songs of Leonard Cohen<\/strong> (Colombia Records, 1967.). The balance of the lines is so perfect and encapsulates the ache of our human existence so well.<\/p>\n<p>No surprises there, of course&#8212;because this is Leonard Cohen with his lifetime of contributing amazing and gorgeous words.<\/p>\n<p>I just felt like celebrating this one today, and by extension, the man and his genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.&#8221; ~ from Stories of the Street, Leonard Cohen, 1934 &#8211; 2016 ~*~ I love this quote, from the closing lines of Stories of the Street, on Leonard Cohen&#8217;s debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (Colombia Records, 1967.). The balance of the lines is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40280,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions\/40280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}