{"id":421,"date":"2007-09-29T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2007\/09\/29\/epistle-to-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2014-04-12T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T10:22:41","slug":"epistle-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/epistle-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistle to Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(with apologies to Alexander Pope) <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>How often I have wished to disappear<br \/>To Babylon, and grow a garden dear;<br \/>But, due to certain moral obligations,<br \/>I cannot rightly yield to such temptations.<br \/>In practice, therefore, I to you am wed<br \/>And stuck inside your suffocating bed.<br \/>Ambitious fools have thought it perfect bliss<br \/>To gain from you a kick or fiery kiss;<br \/>To scale the heavens from your breast-like hills,<br \/>While overlooking all your ruthless kills;<br \/>To slide upon their unperceptive soul,<br \/>As sinks it down into the blackest hole.<br \/>But I instead your genius consulted,<br \/>And many dreadful lines of verse resulted;<br \/>I saw your shadow&rsquo;s stronger than your light,<br \/>And those you darken never shall unite.<br \/>`Gainst you the sole insurance policy,<br \/>As bards before me knew, is prophecy. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>23 August 1997<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(with apologies to Alexander Pope) How often I have wished to disappearTo Babylon, and grow a garden dear;But, due to certain moral obligations,I cannot rightly yield to such temptations.In practice, therefore, I to you am wedAnd stuck inside your suffocating bed.Ambitious fools have thought it perfect blissTo gain from you a kick or fiery kiss;To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}