{"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-1 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-2 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-3 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-4 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-5 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-6 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-7 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-8 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-9 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-10 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-11 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-12 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-13 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-14 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}]}}