{"id":2867,"date":"2005-12-30T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T15:52:47","slug":"wow-i-though-he-was-dead-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/30\/wow-i-though-he-was-dead-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, I Though He Was Dead Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mourn a moment with me for the recently departed poet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/12\/30\/obit.blake.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_new\"> &#8216;Tiger&#8217; creator Blake dead at 87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was under the impression that WIlliam Blake had died a long time ago, but you know how colleges are these days, imparting the young with bad information.  Let&#8217;s eligooglate the man with his most <a rhef=\"http:\/\/www.poetryloverspage.com\/poets\/blake\/tiger.html\" target=\"_new\">famous work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<b>The Tiger<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tiger, tiger, burning bright<br \/>\nIn the forests of the night,<br \/>\nWhat immortal hand or eye<br \/>\nCould frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n<p>In what distant deeps or skies<br \/>\nBurnt the fire of thine eyes?<br \/>\nOn what wings dare he aspire?<br \/>\nWhat the hand dare seize the fire?<\/p>\n<p>And what shoulder and what art<br \/>\nCould twist the sinews of thy heart?<br \/>\nAnd, when thy heart began to beat,<br \/>\nWhat dread hand and what dread feet?<\/p>\n<p>What the hammer? what the chain?<br \/>\nIn what furnace was thy brain?<br \/>\nWhat the anvil? what dread grasp<br \/>\nDare its deadly terrors clasp?<\/p>\n<p>When the stars threw down their spears,<br \/>\nAnd watered heaven with their tears,<br \/>\nDid He smile His work to see?<br \/>\nDid He who made the lamb make thee?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger, tiger, burning bright<br \/>\nIn the forests of the night,<br \/>\nWhat immortal hand or eye<br \/>\nDare frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>No, I didn&#8217;t click through the headline on CNN.com.  Why do you ask?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourn a moment with me for the recently departed poet: &#8216;Tiger&#8217; creator Blake dead at 87 I was under the impression that WIlliam Blake had died a long time ago, but you know how colleges are these days, imparting the young with bad information. Let&#8217;s eligooglate the man with his most famous work: The Tiger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18999,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}