{"id":32844,"date":"2015-09-24T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32844"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:31:36","slug":"al-stewart-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/al-stewart-constantinople\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Stewart &#8211; &#8220;Constantinople&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OdfSK0DEMyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 24 Sep 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A song about the fall of Constantinople.<\/p>\n<p>Al Stewart &#8211; Constantinople Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>Across the western world<br \/>\nThe fights are going down<br \/>\nThe gypsy armies of the evening<br \/>\nHave lit their fires across<br \/>\nThe nether side of town<br \/>\nThey will not pass this way again<br \/>\nSo here in the night<br \/>\nLeave your home it&#8217;s time for running<br \/>\nOut of the light<\/p>\n<p>I see the hosts of Mohammed coming<br \/>\nThe Holy Sister bars her doors against the East<br \/>\nHer house has stood too long divided<br \/>\nThe uninvited guests are breaking up the feast<br \/>\nShe may not bid them leave again<br \/>\nSo here in the night<br \/>\nLeave your home it&#8217;s time for running<br \/>\nOut of the light<\/p>\n<p>I see the hosts of Mohammed coming<br \/>\nI dreamed I stood like this before<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m sure the words that I heard then<br \/>\nWere much the same<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just an old Greek tragedy they&#8217;re acting here<br \/>\nHeld over by popular acclaim<br \/>\nSo here in the night<br \/>\nLeave your home it&#8217;s time for running<br \/>\nOut of the light<br \/>\nI see the hosts of Mohammed coming<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded on 24 Sep 2010 A song about the fall of Constantinople. Al Stewart &#8211; Constantinople Lyrics Across the western world The fights are going down The gypsy armies of the evening Have lit their fires across The nether side of town They will not pass this way again So here in the night Leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,28,370],"tags":[177,858,360,1196,47,200],"class_list":["post-32844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-media","category-middle-east","tag-alstewart","tag-byzantium","tag-christianity","tag-constantinople","tag-islam","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32844\/revisions\/32845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}