{"id":341,"date":"2003-10-11T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-11T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=341"},"modified":"2003-10-11T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-11T13:58:56","slug":"edith-piaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Edith Piaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span>s this coincidence, <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\"alt=\"edith_piaf.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/edith_piaf.jpg\" width=\"85\" height=\"109\" border=\"0\" \/>I wonder, when <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/weblog\/archives\/2003_10.html#001136\">Alfons recalls veering up<\/a> when he hears Piaf during the Dutch movie &#8216;Phileine zegt sorry&#8217;, while at the same time the BBC was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/pop_ups\/03\/europe_edith_piaf0_1915_1963\/html\/1.stm\">commemorating the singer<\/a> (October 10th, it was the 40th anniversary of her death)?\n<\/p>\n<p>In light of the anniversary, The Telegraph has <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/music\/interviews\/story.jsp?story=451249\">an interview<\/a> with the writer of  the song &#8216;Non, je ne regrette rien&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;I played the notes and Vaucaire just started saying &#8216;rien de rien&#8217; and it became a song about the triumph of love, the everlasting hope of love. That is the mystery of songwriting. And fate.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><small><small>Not completely related, croissants for breakfast. Life is good<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this coincidence, I wonder, when Alfons recalls veering up when he hears Piaf during the Dutch movie &#8216;Phileine zegt sorry&#8217;, while at the same time the BBC was commemorating the singer (October 10th, it was the 40th anniversary of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}