{"id":8449,"date":"2023-02-05T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2024-10-22T20:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:45:02","slug":"how-many-troys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=8449","title":{"rendered":"How Many Troys?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"padding: 10px; border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom:5px\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Second Troy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/william-butler-yeats\">William Butler Yeats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why should I blame her that she filled my days<br>With misery, or that she would of late<br>Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,<br>Or hurled the little streets upon the great,<br>Had they but courage equal to desire?<br>What could have made her peaceful with a mind<br>That nobleness made simple as a fire,<br>With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind<br>That is not natural in an age like this,<br>Being high and solitary and most stern?<br>Why, what could she have done, being what she is?<br>Was there another Troy for her to burn?<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Yeats, but never felt like I really understood most of what he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After reading the Iliad and the Odyssey this year I get the &#8220;another Troy&#8221; reference.  And the tightened bow.<\/p>\n<P>But I wonder about how many Troys are left to burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s left to burn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}