{"id":453,"date":"2026-06-25T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=453"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:47:51","slug":"the-soul-said","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=453","title":{"rendered":"THE SOUL SAID\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9a09c730fff1d0ff7d399810c6700f0d wp-block-paragraph\">The soul said: \u00abAutumn.\u00bb&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-40696282952780c8f7972da4de468217 wp-block-paragraph\">And with her came the rains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0f715c042bcacd3dd8bdbf77938d8b2e wp-block-paragraph\">All the people turned cruel,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-90b8d7e67a349cc5ccecaece3a3464e9 wp-block-paragraph\">and their children fell silent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a961c9a28f1c54ec9926637af8bdae7 wp-block-paragraph\">The whole world stalled \u2014 afraid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4f41019ad6a248385e192ba94e6f6712 wp-block-paragraph\">But suddenly \u00abDawn\u00bb arrived \u2014 and Autumn smiled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-033bafe2d3df54f3e1a1b8da9be03458 wp-block-paragraph\">A gloomy sparrow flew up to a branch&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ff9c1f721df94185cd96c47d4d0d3551 wp-block-paragraph\">and remembered how, in spring, he had been in love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-77fbf4d8f772efb055b331db3fca4a5b wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abShe\u00bb \u2014 seeing the sparrow \u2014 began to smile back,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-332df9e2c3e50df021e023039f8a3baf wp-block-paragraph\">and tears of happiness streamed from her eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3cff49fb7776f9cc71de8f91fd504e68 wp-block-paragraph\">There will be no more autumn together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6f33faaf5bae62a6328893c9d9b83a74 wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abHe is not here today\u00bb \u2014 and he never will be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-72bf307eb0671421f0004ce1239aa815 wp-block-paragraph\">He \u00ableft this world\u00bb \u2014 leaving her behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4c427a0b62685af32b2144815a3640bf wp-block-paragraph\">*September 5, 2018, Zaporizhzhia*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soul said: \u00abAutumn.\u00bb&nbsp; And with her came the rains.&nbsp; All the people turned cruel,&nbsp; and their children fell silent.&nbsp; The whole world stalled \u2014 afraid. But suddenly \u00abDawn\u00bb arrived \u2014 and Autumn smiled.&nbsp; A gloomy sparrow flew up to a branch&nbsp; and remembered how, in spring, he had been in love.&nbsp; \u00abShe\u00bb \u2014 seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-453","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}