{"id":21424,"date":"2011-09-26T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/damau.org\/archives\/21424"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:50:05","slug":"mat-troi-lan-xuong-o-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/21424\/mat-troi-lan-xuong-o-california","title":{"rendered":"M\u1eb7t tr\u1eddi l\u1eb7n xu\u1ed1ng \u1edf California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(\u2026 and two English translations)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>M\u1eb7t tr\u1eddi l\u1eb7n xu\u1ed1ng \u1edf California<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anh kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3 l\u1ea5y em<br \/>\nXin em \u0111\u1eebng gi\u1eadn<\/p>\n<p>Nh\u01b0ng anh c\u00f3 th\u1ec3 nh\u1ecf l\u1ea1i<br \/>\nL\u0103n d\u00e0i tr\u00ean l\u00e1 sen<\/p>\n<p>Ng\u00e0y mai anh kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3 ch\u1ebft<br \/>\nNh\u01b0ng c\u00f3 th\u1ec3 bi\u1ebfn m\u1ea5t<br \/>\nNh\u01b0 b\u1ee5i m\u00f9 tr\u00ean \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng<\/p>\n<p>B\u00ean b\u1edd r\u00e0o t\u1eed \u0111inh h\u01b0\u01a1ng<br \/>\nAnh t\u00ecm \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c m\u1ed9t v\u1eadt<br \/>\n\u0110\u00e3 c\u1eaft \u0111\u1ee9t t\u00ecnh y\u00eau ch\u00fang ta<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Sun Is Descending in California<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is not an option<br \/>\nI beg for your understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I can do the transformation trick:<br \/>\nMake myself very small<br \/>\nThen glide along a lotus leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I can\u2019t die as yet<br \/>\nBut I may diminish<br \/>\nLike dust on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Beside the lilac hedge<br \/>\nI found that single thing<br \/>\nWhich severed our romantic ties.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (A translation by Nguy\u1ec5n Ho\u00e0ng)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>That Evening the Sun Goes Down in California<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t marry you<br \/>\nyou wouldn\u2019t mind, I hope.<\/p>\n<p>I can minimize myself<br \/>\nto slide on a lotus leaf<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I can not die<br \/>\nbut disappear, yes<br \/>\nlike dust on the road<\/p>\n<p>Against the lilac hedge<br \/>\nI found a thing<br \/>\nwhich severed our love string<\/p>\n<p><em>(A translation by the author)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anh kh\u00f4ng th\u1ec3 l\u1ea5y em<br \/>\nXin em \u0111\u1eebng gi\u1eadn<\/p>\n<p>I can do the transformation trick:<br \/>\nMake myself very small<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,37,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dich-thuat","category-sang-tac","category-tho","category-tu-viet-ngu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55029,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424\/revisions\/55029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}