{"id":4300,"date":"2025-01-03T18:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/bai-tho-hay-ve-cay-dua-viet-nam-dua-oi-tac-gia-le-anh-xuan\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:39:16","slug":"beautiful-poem-about-vietnamese-coconut-tree-oh-coconut-by-le-anh-xuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/beautiful-poem-about-vietnamese-coconut-tree-oh-coconut-by-le-anh-xuan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Poem About the Coconut Tree in Vietnam: &#8220;Oh Coconut&#8221; \u2013 Author: Le Anh Xuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s recall a segment from the beautiful and familiar poem about the coconut tree that many people born in the 70s and 80s might remember \ud83d\ude0a:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I grew up seeing coconuts in front of the door<br \/>\nCoconuts lull me to sleep in my childhood<br \/>\nEvery afternoon, I hear coconuts rustling in the wind<br \/>\nI ask my grandmother: &#8216;When did coconuts come into being?&#8217;<br \/>\nGrandmother said: &#8216;When I was a girl<br \/>\nI saw the shade of coconuts cooling in the yard<br \/>\nThis land used to be a salty swamp<br \/>\nA life of poverty and bitterness all year round&#8217;<br \/>\nToday I return to my old hometown<br \/>\nTwenty years, how many suns and rains<br \/>\nGrandmother has passed away, the grass is green<br \/>\nOn the coconut trunk, bullet marks are withered.<br \/>\nOh coconut! How old are you<br \/>\nThat your leaves remain green until now<br \/>\nI hear the ancient winds calling<br \/>\nThe rustling of coconut leaves or the clashing of swords.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh coconut! How old are you<br \/>\nThat your leaves remain green until now<br \/>\nI hear the ancient winds calling<br \/>\nThe rustling of coconut leaves or the clashing of swords.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internal-news","category-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supertastevietnam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}