{"id":50130,"date":"2022-03-06T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=50130"},"modified":"2022-03-07T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:24:50","slug":"vlad-the-impaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/03\/vlad-the-impaler.html","title":{"rendered":"Vlad the Impaler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/drawing-by-maurice-henry\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"480,561\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1643113726&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"drawing by maurice henry\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry-257x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50129\" width=\"487\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry-257x300.jpeg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><i>Drawing by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/h\/henry_maurice.htm\"> Maurice Henry<\/a> arranged by Gerard Bellaart<\/i>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\"You\u2019re occupiers. You are fascists. Why the fuck did you come here with your guns?\" Ukrainian woman confronting Russian soldiers in Henichesk, in southern Ukraine.  \"Take these seeds and put them in your pocket so, at least, sunflowers will grow on your graves.\"<em> (Translation by Alex Abramovich, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/february\/idi-haxuj?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20220304icymi&amp;utm_content=20220304icymi+CID_115386f726ef0b0879cf6ef8eb52b82b&amp;utm_source=LRB%20email&amp;utm_term=Read%20more\"><em>London Review of Books<\/em><\/a>)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukrainian woman offers seeds to Russian soldiers so &#039;sunflowers grow when they die&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L17Bi7zBJHI?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><em>Video posted by The Guardian: &#8216;Sunflowers Will Grow on Your Graves&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-right\"><strong>Bells ring \nsilently the evening  \nrolls in its void<\/strong> \u2014 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/paul-celan\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/paul-celan\">Paul Celan<\/a><\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018You\u2019re occupiers. You are fascists. Why the fuck did you come here with your guns?\u2019 Ukrainian woman confronting Russian soldiers in Henichesk, in southern Ukraine.  \u2018Take these seeds and put them in your pocket so, at least, sunflowers will grow on your graves.\u2019 (Translated by Alex Abramovich)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bells ring \/ silently the evening \/ rolls in its void&#8217; \u2014 Paul Celan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/drawing-by-maurice-henry.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-d2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50164,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50130\/revisions\/50164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}