{"id":108,"date":"2007-02-07T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/the-cat-and-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T22:24:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T22:24:27","slug":"the-cat-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/the-cat-and-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The cat and the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a bite to eat with Amanda after work, town was a bit screwed due to a bomb scare, so we ended up in Weatherspoons. Chatted about a bunch of stuff and she mentioned a poem by Yeats that I hadn&#8217;t read called the <em>Cat and the Moon<\/em>. Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>The cat went here and there<br \/>\nAnd the moon spun round like a top,<br \/>\nAnd the nearest kin of the moon,<br \/>\nThe creeping cat, looked up.<br \/>\nBlack Minnaloushe stared at the moon,<br \/>\nFor, wander and wail as he would,<br \/>\nThe pure cold light in the sky<br \/>\nTroubled his animal blood.<br \/>\nMinnaloushe runs in the grass<br \/>\nLifting his delicate feet.<br \/>\nDo you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?<br \/>\nWhen two close kindred meet,<br \/>\nWhat better than call a dance?<br \/>\nMaybe the moon may learn,<br \/>\nTired of that courtly fashion<br \/>\n, A new dance turn.<br \/>\nMinnaloushe creeps through the grass<br \/>\nFrom moonlit place to place,<br \/>\nThe sacred moon overhead<br \/>\nHas taken a new phase.<br \/>\nDoes Minnaloushe know that his pupils<br \/>\nWill pass from change to change,<br \/>\nAnd that from round to crescent,<br \/>\nFrom crescent to round they range?<br \/>\nMinnaloushe creeps through the grass<br \/>\nAlone, important and wise,<br \/>\nAnd lifts to the changing moon<br \/>\nHis changing eyes.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">By W. B Yeats<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a bite to eat with Amanda after work, town was a bit screwed due to a bomb scare, so we ended up in Weatherspoons. Chatted about a bunch of stuff and she mentioned a poem by Yeats that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/the-cat-and-the-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}