{"id":3319,"date":"2006-09-30T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2006-09-30T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T10:01:00","slug":"mad-eyed-from-stating-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Mad-eyed from stating the obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff over at A Purpose More Obscure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apurposemoreobscure.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/advice-to-prophet-and-economics-of-use.html\">&#8220;When you come, as you soon must,<br \/>to the streets of our city,<br \/>Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,<br \/>Not proclaiming our fall but begging us<br \/>In God&#8217;s name to have self-pity,<\/p>\n<p>Spare us all word of the weapons, their<br \/>force and range,<br \/>The long numbers that rocket the mind;<br \/>Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left<br \/>behind,<br \/>Unable to fear what is too strange&#8230;.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I felt after reading that letter in the Courier &#8216;Mad-eyed from stating the obvious&#8230; begging us in God&#8217;s name to have self-pity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Quite so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff over at A Purpose More Obscure: &#8220;When you come, as you soon must,to the streets of our city,Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,Not proclaiming our fall but begging usIn God&#8217;s name to have self-pity, Spare us all word of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Rx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}