{"id":12623,"date":"2017-03-22T13:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:16:28","slug":"melancholy-baby-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/melancholy-baby-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Melancholy Baby by Barbara F. Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in love with Al Bowlly<br \/>\nleaning towards a microphone<br \/>\nback when the world was out of money,<br \/>\nmoving away, arms curved, spread palms<br \/>\nembracing a woman he shapes<br \/>\nfrom the recording booth\u2019s hushed air<br \/>\nwhile he croons to myself alone<br \/>\nCome to me my Melancholy Baby,<br \/>\neach note the ocean at low tide,<br \/>\nthe camera also catching<br \/>\na man at a grand piano,<br \/>\ndark hair parted down the middle<br \/>\njust like Al\u2019s and Rudee Vallee\u2019s<br \/>\nand my father\u2019s, high 1930\u2019s style.<br \/>\nIf only I\u2019d known in advance<br \/>\nI would have warned him<br \/>\nto run to the bomb shelter<br \/>\nbefore the Luftwaffe killed him<br \/>\nin April \u201941, but I was barely six,<br \/>\nthought blitz had something to do with snow<br \/>\nand knew only the London of nursery rhymes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in love with Al Bowlly leaning towards a microphone back when the world was out of money, moving away, arms curved, spread palms embracing a woman he shapes from the recording booth\u2019s hushed air while he croons to myself alone Come to me my Melancholy Baby, each note the ocean at low tide, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-f-lefcowitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}