{"id":15448,"date":"2011-08-07T03:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T03:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15448"},"modified":"2017-11-11T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T22:59:00","slug":"half-caste-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15448","title":{"rendered":"Half-Caste Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CB6r00bfrnE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half-Caste Woman<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No%C3%ABl_Coward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>No\u00ebl Coward<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n1932<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sz8-CxAwPsg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laugh a bit, drink a bit, love a bit more.<br \/>\nYou can supply our needs.<br \/>\nThink a bit, sink a bit, what&#8217;s it all for.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s your Eurasian creed.<\/p>\n<p>Sailors with sentimental hearts, who love and sail away.<br \/>\nWhen the dawn is gray,\u00a0look at you&#8230; and say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half-caste<\/a>\u00a0woman, living a life apart.<br \/>\nWhere did your story begin?<br \/>\nHalf-caste-woman, have you a secret heart<br \/>\nWaiting for someone to win?<\/p>\n<p>Were you born of some queer magic<br \/>\nIn your shimmering gown?<br \/>\nIs there something strange and tragic<br \/>\nDeep, deep down?<\/p>\n<p>Half-caste woman, what are your slanting eyes<br \/>\nWaiting and hoping to see?<br \/>\nScanning the far horizon<br \/>\nWondering what the end will be.<\/p>\n<p>Down along the river<br \/>\nThe sky is a quiver<br \/>\nAnd dawn is beginning to break.<\/p>\n<p>Hear the sirens wailing<br \/>\nSome big ship is sailing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m loosing my dreams in it&#8217;s wake.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I remember the things that are past<br \/>\nMoments so softly gone.<br \/>\nWhy worry for the Lord knows<br \/>\nLive goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Go to bed in daylight.<br \/>\nTry to sleep in vain.<br \/>\nGet up in the evening.<br \/>\nWork begins again.<\/p>\n<p>Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief<br \/>\nQuestioning the same refrain.<\/p>\n<p>Half-caste\u00a0woman, living a life apart.<br \/>\nWhere did your story begin?<br \/>\nHalf-caste woman, have you a secret heart<br \/>\nWaiting for someone to win?<\/p>\n<p>Were you born of some queer magic<br \/>\nIn your shimmering gown?<br \/>\nIs there something strange and tragic<br \/>\nDeep, deep down?<\/p>\n<p>Half-caste woman, what are your slanting eyes<br \/>\nWaiting and hoping to see?<br \/>\nScanning the far horizon<br \/>\nWondering what the end will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Half-caste woman, what are your slanting eyes<br \/>\nWaiting and hoping to see?<br \/>\nScanning the far horizon<br \/>\nWondering what the end will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,8,25],"tags":[1392,7141],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-music","tag-noel-coward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55100,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/55100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}