{"id":23324,"date":"2016-11-11T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23324"},"modified":"2016-11-11T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:02:14","slug":"leonard-cohen-master-of-erotic-despair-takes-his-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/11\/11\/leonard-cohen-master-of-erotic-despair-takes-his-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Cohen, \u2018Master of Erotic Despair\u2019 Takes His Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Forward<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/music\/354205\/leonard-cohen-master-of-erotic-despair-takes-his-leave\/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=New%20Weekly%202016-11-11&#038;utm_term=Weekly%20%2B%20Daily\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Cohen, \u2018Master of Erotic Despair\u2019 Takes His Leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRock-poet Leonard Cohen, the \u201cmaster of erotic despair\u201d and the writer of dozens of modern classics that have been performed and recorded by everyone from John Cale to Judy Collins, Willie Nelson, U2 and Rufus Wainwright, died on November 10 at age 82.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The biography in this paean to Cohen is something I never realized nor appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with this video that was included in the article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/okaqXB6Ns5s?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #000000;\"> allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forward has the article Leonard Cohen, \u2018Master of Erotic Despair\u2019 Takes His Leave. Rock-poet Leonard Cohen, the \u201cmaster of erotic despair\u201d and the writer of dozens of modern classics that have been performed and recorded by everyone from John Cale to Judy Collins, Willie Nelson, U2 and Rufus Wainwright, died on November 10 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23325,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}