{"id":1143,"date":"2009-08-20T03:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-poet-and-his-songs\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T21:21:47","slug":"the-poet-and-his-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-poet-and-his-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"the poet and his songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One who is always swimming in the sea loves dry land; one who for ever is plunged in prose passionately longs for poetry.&#8221;  &#8211; Chekhov<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>On Seeing The Elgin Marbles<\/strong><br \/>\nby John Keats<\/p>\n<p>My spirit is too weak; mortality<br \/>\nWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,<br \/>\nAnd each imagined pinnacle and steep<br \/>\nOf godlike hardship tells me I must die<br \/>\nLike a sick eagle looking at the sky.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/buffy-marbles.jpg' alt='Buffy Elgin Marbles Keats' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yet &#8217;tis a gentle luxury to weep,<br \/>\nThat I have not the cloudy winds to keep<br \/>\nFresh for the opening of the morning&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p>Such dim-conceived glories of the brain,<br \/>\nBring round the heart an indescribable feud;<br \/>\nSo do these wonders a most dizzy pain,<br \/>\nThat mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude<br \/>\nWasting of old Time &#8212; with a billowy main<br \/>\nA sun, a shadow of a magnitude.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One who is always swimming in the sea loves dry land; one who for ever is plunged in prose passionately longs for poetry.&#8221; &#8211; Chekhov &#8212;&#8212; On Seeing The Elgin Marbles by John Keats My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}