{"id":4656,"date":"2011-02-04T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2011-02-04T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:03:39","slug":"what-rough-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/04\/what-rough-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"what rough beast?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td><strong>The Second Coming<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">W.B Yeats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br \/>        The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br \/>        Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br \/>        Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br \/>        The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br \/>        The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br \/>        The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br \/>        Are full of passionate intensity.<br \/>        Surely some revelation is at hand;<br \/>        Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br \/>        The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br \/>        When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi<br \/>        Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br \/>        A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br \/>        Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br \/>        Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.<br \/>        The darkness drops again; but now I know<br \/>        That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br \/>        were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br \/>        And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br \/>        Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>      <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ssli.ee.washington.edu\/%7Elixiao\/gallery\/AfricaSelected\/Cairo007_Sphinx.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Coming W.B Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}