{"id":68147,"date":"2020-07-14T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=68147"},"modified":"2020-07-14T18:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:06:55","slug":"quatorze-juillet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=68147","title":{"rendered":"Quatorze Juillet !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; finding in Blake&#8217;s poetry a visionary approach to Bastille Day ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>Bastille Day<\/strong>! &#8212;<br \/>\nand <strong>Zenpundit <\/strong>honors <strong>France <\/strong>on this day.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Blake<\/strong>, in his poem <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_French_Revolution\">The French Revolution<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dead brood over Europe, the cloud and vision descends over chearful France;<br \/>\nO cloud well appointed! Sick, sick: the Prince on his couch, wreath&#8217;d in dim<br \/>\nAnd appalling mist; his strong hand outstretch&#8217;d, from his shoulder down the bone<br \/>\nRuns aching cold into the scepter too heavy for mortal grasp. No more<br \/>\nTo be swayed by visible hand, nor in cruelty bruise the mild flourishing mountains. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s only the first stanza of the 300-odd lines of <strong>Book the First<\/strong> out of <strong>Seven<\/strong>, only the <strong>First <\/strong>having been published. Much to chew on, both in the <strong>French Revolution<\/strong> and its aftermath, and in that first stanza of <strong>Bkake<\/strong>&#8216;s poem.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vive la France !!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; finding in Blake&#8217;s poetry a visionary approach to Bastille Day ] . It&#8217;s Bastille Day! &#8212; and Zenpundit honors France on this day. ** William Blake, in his poem The French Revolution, writes: The dead brood over Europe, the cloud and vision descends over chearful France; O cloud well appointed! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212,1621,526,52,179,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blake","category-calendar","category-charles-cameron","category-france","category-revolution","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68151,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions\/68151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}