{"id":1117,"date":"2015-08-11T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2015-08-11T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:01:17","slug":"seamus-heaney-anything-can-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1117\/poems\/seamus-heaney-anything-can-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamus Heaney: Anything Can Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poem_motto\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">after Horace,\u00a0<span class=\"booktitle\">Odes<\/span>, I, 34.<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem_motto\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poem_body\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter<br \/>\nWill mostly wait for clouds to gather head<br \/>\nBefore he hurls the lightning? Well, just now<br \/>\nHe galloped his thunder cart and his horses<\/p>\n<p>Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth<br \/>\nAnd the clogged underearth, the River Styx,<br \/>\nThe winding streams, the Atlantic shore itself.<br \/>\nAnything can happen, the tallest towers<\/p>\n<p>Be overturned, those in high places daunted,<br \/>\nThose overlooked regarded. Stropped-beak Fortune<br \/>\nSwoops, making the air gasp, tearing the crest off one,<br \/>\nSetting it down bleeding on the next.<\/p>\n<p>Ground gives. The heaven\u2019s weight<br \/>\nLifts up off Atlas like a kettle-lid.<br \/>\nCapstones shift, nothing resettles right.<br \/>\nTelluric ash and fire-spores boil away.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"poem_body\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poem_body\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #818181;\">\u00a9\u00a02006, Seamus Heaney<\/span><br style=\"color: #818181;\" \/><span style=\"color: #818181;\">From:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\" style=\"font-style: italic; color: #818181;\">District and Circle<\/span><br style=\"color: #818181;\" \/><span style=\"color: #818181;\">Publisher: Faber &amp; Faber, London, 2006<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Horace,\u00a0Odes, I, 34. Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head Before he hurls the lightning? Well, just now He galloped his thunder cart and his horses Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth And the clogged underearth, the River Styx, The winding streams, the <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1117\/poems\/seamus-heaney-anything-can-happen\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[286,287],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-286","tag-change-management","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}