{"id":65264,"date":"2017-11-07T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=65264"},"modified":"2017-11-07T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:09:53","slug":"saudade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65264","title":{"rendered":"Saudade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Saudade<\/strong> (soh-<strong><span class=\"dbox-bold\">dah<\/span><\/strong>-d<span class=\"dbox-italic\">uh<\/span>) especially with reference to songs or poetry: a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament. An English translation of this word would best be replaced by \u2018missingness.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Her songs are based on love poems and evoke a melancholy known to the Portuguese as saudade.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(n.) &#8220;yearnings, saudades, those sonorous fruits grown for overripe hearts&#8221; or &#8220;the love that remains&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Portuguese and Galician term that is a common fixture in the literature and music of Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, and beyond. The concept has many definitions, including a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not even happened. It often carries an assurance that this thing you feel nostalgic for will never happen again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.&#8221; ~ Portuguese writer Manuel de Melo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter where I wander, I&#8217;m still haunted by your name<br \/>\nThe portrait of your beauty stays the same<br \/>\nStanding by the ocean wondering where you&#8217;ve gone<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ll return again<br \/>\nWhere is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain?&#8221;<br \/>\n~ Barney Rush in his example of <em>saudade<\/em>\u00a0in contemporary Irish music.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65266\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65266\" class=\"wp-image-65266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Almeida_J\u00fanior_-_Saudade_1899.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"731\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Jose Ferraz de Almeida Junior via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudade (soh-dah-duh) especially with reference to songs or poetry: a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament. An English translation of this word would best be replaced by \u2018missingness.\u2019 &#8220;Her songs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}