{"id":150,"date":"2026-05-12T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:21:03","slug":"the-unbraided-mane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/?page_id=150","title":{"rendered":"the unbraided mane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>October 2018, Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>for the last white rhino<\/em><br>to live life<br>i die<br>to live life<br>i die every day\u00a0<br>i die every day\u00a0<br>voluntarily<br><br>last night\u00a0<br>i died\u00a0<br>i died again<br>last night<br>when the sky of africa was red<br>and the stars black<br>like a bleeding watermelon<br>i died\u00a0<br>with the last white rhino<br><br>you cannot braid\u00a0<br>a lion\u2019s mane<br>you cannot pick\u00a0<br>the flower-spots of a jaguar<br>you can behead all trees\u00a0<br>of the amazon rain forest<br>but you cannot suffocate\u00a0<br>its spirit\u00a0<br>maybe you can buy the entire world<br>but you cannot possess the air<br><br>to live life<br>i die<br>i die every day<br><br>in search of myself<br>my gaze flies over a steep slope\u00a0<br>deep forests and thirsty beaches<br>but i fail to find\u00a0<br>i am entangled and twisted\u00a0<br>in the roots of pine and poplar trees<br>i can hear their prayers and lamentations<br>i am streaming alongside all dry seasons<br>and breathing with all seas<br>drowned in plastic<br>in moon i swim\u00a0<br>in sun i bathe\u00a0<br><br>to live life<br>i die<br>i die every day<br>to live life<br>(die before you die!)<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2018, Amsterdam for the last white rhinoto live lifei dieto live lifei die every day\u00a0i die every day\u00a0voluntarily last night\u00a0i died\u00a0i died againlast nightwhen the sky of africa was redand the stars blacklike a bleeding watermeloni died\u00a0with the last white rhino you cannot braid\u00a0a lion\u2019s maneyou cannot pick\u00a0the flower-spots of a jaguaryou can behead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraidoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}