{"id":2341,"date":"2012-04-16T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/the-hour\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:39:00","slug":"the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shmuel_hanagid\" target=\"_blank\">Shmuel Hanagid<\/a>\u00a0(born 993 &#8211; died after 1056)<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cBe happy that God has helped you reach\u00a0<br \/>The age of fifty in this world,\u201d not knowing\u00a0<br \/>That to me there is no difference between my life\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>Past and that of Noah about whom I heard.\u00a0<br \/>For me there is only the hour in which I am present in this world:\u00a0<br \/>It stays for a moment and then like a cloud moves on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Leon J. Weinberger from Leon J. Weinberger, trans.,\u00a0<em>Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela<\/em>. (Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Jonathan Karp, American Jewish Historical Society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Shmuel Hanagid\u00a0(born 993 &#8211; died after 1056) She said: \u201cBe happy that God has helped you reach\u00a0The age of fifty in this world,\u201d not knowing\u00a0That to me there is no difference between my life\u2019s\u00a0Past and that of Noah about whom I heard.\u00a0For me there is only the hour in which I am present in this world:\u00a0It stays for a moment and then like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[962,1216],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-shmuel-hanagid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}