{"id":7361,"date":"2014-07-14T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truongan.byethost11.com\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T11:28:45","slug":"the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zLfCnGVeL4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hello darkness, my old friend<br \/>\nI've come to talk with you again<br \/>\nBecause a vision softly creeping<br \/>\nLeft its seeds while I was sleeping<br \/>\nAnd the vision that was planted in my brain<br \/>\nStill remains<br \/>\nWithin the sound of silence<\/p>\n<p>In restless dreams I walked alone<br \/>\nNarrow streets of cobblestone<br \/>\n'Neath the halo of a street lamp<br \/>\nI turned my collar to the cold and damp<br \/>\nWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light<br \/>\nThat split the night<br \/>\nAnd touched the sound of silence<\/p>\n<p>And in the naked light I saw<br \/>\nTen thousand people maybe more<br \/>\nPeople talking without speaking<br \/>\nPeople hearing without listening<br \/>\nPeople writing songs that voices never shared<br \/>\nNo one dared<br \/>\nDisturb the sound of silence<\/p>\n<p>\"Fools,\" said I, \"you do not know<br \/>\nSilence like a cancer grows<br \/>\nHear my words that I might teach you<br \/>\nTake my arms that I might reach you\"<br \/>\nBut my words like silent raindrops fell<br \/>\nAnd echoed in the wells of silence<\/p>\n<p>And the people bowed and prayed<br \/>\nTo the neon god they made<br \/>\nAnd the sign flashed out its warning<br \/>\nIn the words that it was forming<br \/>\nAnd the sign said \"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls<br \/>\nAnd tenement halls<br \/>\nAnd whispered in the sound of silence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello darkness, my old friend I&#8217;ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone &#8216;Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sound of silence &#8220;Fools,&#8221; said I, &#8220;you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you&#8221; But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said &#8220;The words of the prophets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodies","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truongan.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}