{"id":1654,"date":"2022-09-03T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2022-09-03T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:40:41","slug":"to-elliot-israel-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/to-elliot-israel-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"To Elliot Israel Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Joyce chose Bloom to be his Ulysses,<br \/>\nHis favourite character in literature,<br \/>\nLike Homer he mocked the cult of Hercules,<br \/>\nWhich, needless to say, in Zion is secure.<br \/>\nThus when we met that day on Balfour Street,<br \/>\nI knew my Bloom, the Joycean <em>mensch<\/em>, I&#8217;d found:<br \/>\nLoyal, observant, earthy, kind, discreet,<br \/>\nProphetic, modest, jocular, wise and sound.<br \/>\nFor your sixtieth birthday I composed a rhyme<br \/>\nWith phrases Will and T.S. Eliot spun;<br \/>\nYou were radiant then and, notwithstanding time,<br \/>\nAre still at eighty blooming in the sun.<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>So many Happy Returns, my noble friend,<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>And may your humour chime until the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">Jerusalem<br \/>\n8 September 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Joyce chose Bloom to be his Ulysses, His favourite character in literature, Like Homer he mocked the cult of Hercules, Which, needless to say, in Zion is secure. Thus when we met that day on Balfour Street, I knew my Bloom, the Joycean mensch, I&#8217;d found: Loyal, observant, earthy, kind, discreet, Prophetic, modest, jocular, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,34,17,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}