{"id":96,"date":"2006-07-25T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/07\/25\/the-ballad-of-east-and-west\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:34:56","slug":"the-ballad-of-east-and-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/the-ballad-of-east-and-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of East and West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><em>(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, East was East, and West was West,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; but now they&#8217;ve truly met:<br \/>For both agree that money is God and with it<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; they&#8217;ll Heaven beget;<br \/>Yet there&#8217;ll be neither East nor West, money,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nor place to dwell,<br \/>If fundamentalist &quot;prophets&quot; unleash the weapons<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; of hell.<\/p>\n<p>So may East be East, and West be West,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; but may the twain still meet;<br \/>May everyone find God within &#8211; for here&#8217;s<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Judgement Seat;<br \/>Then there&#8217;d indeed be neither War, Border,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nor Breed, nor Birth,<br \/>And two strong men could stand face to face,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; though they came from the ends of the earth.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jerusalem<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 December 1995<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) Oh, East was East, and West was West,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; but now they&#8217;ve truly met:For both agree that money is God and with it&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; they&#8217;ll Heaven beget;Yet there&#8217;ll be neither East nor West, money,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nor place to dwell,If fundamentalist &quot;prophets&quot; unleash the weapons&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; of hell. So may East be East, and West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}