{"id":1710,"date":"2020-11-24T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2023-01-22T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:04:24","slug":"w-b-yeats-mad-as-the-mist-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2020\/1710\/poems\/w-b-yeats-mad-as-the-mist-and-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"W. B. Yeats: Mad as the Mist and Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bolt and bar the shutter,<br \/>For the foul winds blow:<br \/>Our minds are at their best this night,<br \/>And I seem to know<br \/>That everything outside us is<br \/>Mad as the mist and snow.<br \/><br \/>Horace there by Homer stands,<br \/>Plato stands below,<br \/>And here is Tully&#8217;s open page.<br \/>How many years ago<br \/>Were you and I unlettered lads<br \/>Mad as the mist and snow?<br \/><br \/>You ask what makes me sigh, old friend,<br \/>What makes me shudder so?<br \/>I shudder and I sigh to think<br \/>That even Cicero<br \/>And many-minded Homer were<br \/>Mad as the mist and snow.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolt and bar the shutter,For the foul winds blow:Our minds are at their best this night,And I seem to knowThat everything outside us isMad as the mist and snow. Horace there by Homer stands,Plato stands below,And here is Tully&#8217;s open page.How many years agoWere you and I unlettered ladsMad as the mist and snow? You <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2020\/1710\/poems\/w-b-yeats-mad-as-the-mist-and-snow\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","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\/1710","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=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}