{"id":252,"date":"2004-03-03T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=252"},"modified":"2004-03-03T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T22:25:56","slug":"gerard-manley-hopkinsgods-grandeur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Manley Hopkins\/God&#8217;s Grandeur"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.<br \/>\nIt will flame out, like shining from shook foil;<br \/>\nIt gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil<br \/>\nCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?<br \/>\nGenerations have trod, have trod, have trod;<br \/>\nAnd all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;<br \/>\nAnd wears man&#8217;s smudge and shares man&#8217;s smell: the soil<br \/>\nIs bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.<br \/>\nAnd for all this, nature is never spent;<br \/>\nThere lives the dearest freshness deep down things;<br \/>\nAnd though the last lights off the black West went<br \/>\nOh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs&#8211;<br \/>\nBecause the Holy Ghost over the bent<br \/>\nWorld broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}