{"id":6878,"date":"2016-07-16T08:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2017-01-19T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:01:59","slug":"from-bitter-searching-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2016\/07\/16\/from-bitter-searching-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"From bitter searching of the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A villanelle has\u00a0nineteen lines and\u00a0just\u00a0two rhyming sounds, in this case &#8220;ain&#8221; and &#8220;art&#8221;. Frank Scott&#8217;s <strong>Villanelle for Our Time<\/strong> was set to music\u00a0by\u00a0Leonard Cohen on one of his more unusual\u00a0albums, Dear Heather. Years ago I heard Cohen tell BBC Front Row&#8217;s Mark Lawson that\u00a0the discipline of verse, far from constraining creativity, opens up new avenues of thought.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leonard Cohen - Villanelle For Our Time\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UzvVOy0Dq8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A villanelle has\u00a0nineteen lines and\u00a0just\u00a0two rhyming sounds, in this case &#8220;ain&#8221; and &#8220;art&#8221;. Frank Scott&#8217;s Villanelle for Our Time was set to music\u00a0by\u00a0Leonard Cohen on one of his more unusual\u00a0albums, Dear Heather. Years ago I heard Cohen tell BBC Front &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2016\/07\/16\/from-bitter-searching-of-the-heart\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}