{"id":3116,"date":"2015-04-17T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T02:40:31","slug":"brian-holton-reads-forthcoming-yang-lian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"Brian Holton reads forthcoming Yang Lian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F178755463&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=584&#038;maxheight=876\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"soundTitle__title  soundTitle__titleHero g-type-shrinkwrap-inline\">Brian Holton<\/span> reads his translation of a section of the forthcoming <em>Narrative Poem <\/em>\u53d9\u4e8b\u8bd7 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Holton reads his translation of a section of the forthcoming Narrative Poem \u53d9\u4e8b\u8bd7 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[342,9],"tags":[174,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Og","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3816,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3816","url_meta":{"origin":3116,"position":0},"title":"Holton&#8217;s Yang Lian PEN Translates Award Winner","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"English PEN has announced its latest list of PEN Translates award winners, and Brian Holton's translation of Narrative Poem \u53d9\u4e8b\u8bd7 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc (Bloodaxe) is one of the winners! 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