{"id":2591,"date":"2023-08-18T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2023-08-18T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:10:52","slug":"shakespeare-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/shakespeare-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like us, Will lived in fundamentalist times:<br \/>\nBelief was tainted with literalistic science<br \/>\nAnd thought police committed evil crimes<br \/>\nAgainst those citizens that scorned compliance.<br \/>\nBy giving the world allegorical plays<br \/>\nHe paid great tribute to the golden mean:<br \/>\nFor only metaphor the truth conveys,<br \/>\nWhich lies not at the poles but in between.<br \/>\nIf revived, Bin Laden with his pen he\u2019d blot,<br \/>\nBig Brother Bush he would spear, shake, and wilt;<br \/>\nFor sure the new crusading hawks could not<br \/>\nHide from the poet\u2019s eagle eye their guilt.<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>Yet all would be in vain \u2013 since the split mind,<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>Though viewing the tempest, stays by nature blind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">\nJerusalem<br \/>\n11 November 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like us, Will lived in fundamentalist times: Belief was tainted with literalistic science And thought police committed evil crimes Against those citizens that scorned compliance. By giving the world allegorical plays He paid great tribute to the golden mean: For only metaphor the truth conveys, Which lies not at the poles but in between. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}