{"id":661,"date":"2011-04-14T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:20:08","slug":"the-cold-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-cold-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>by William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven<br \/>\nThat seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,<br \/>\nAnd thereupon imagination and heart were driven<br \/>\nSo wild that every casual thought of that and this<br \/>\nVanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season<br \/>\nWith the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago;<br \/>\nAnd I took all the blame out of all sense and reason,<br \/>\nUntil I cried and trembled and rocked to and fro,<br \/>\nRiddled with light. Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,<br \/>\nConfusion of the death-bed over, is it sent<br \/>\nOut naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken<br \/>\nBy the injustice of the skies for punishment?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on April 10<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by William Butler Yeats Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice, And thereupon imagination and heart were driven So wild that every casual thought of that and this Vanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season With the hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}