{"id":378,"date":"2008-03-24T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/love-and-duty\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T15:28:03","slug":"love-and-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/love-and-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAn extract from one of Tennyson&#8217;s earlier poems &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readbookonline.net\/read\/4310\/14259\/\">Love and Duty<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nThe slow sweet hours that bring us all things good,\r\nThe slow sad hours that bring us all things ill,\r\nAnd all good things from evil, brought the night\r\nIn which we sat together and alone,\r\nAnd to the want, that hollow'd all the heart,\r\nGave utterance by the yearning of an eye,\r\nThat burn'd upon its object thro' such tears\r\nAs flow but once a life. The trance gave way\r\nTo those caresses, when a hundred times\r\nIn that last kiss, which never was the last,\r\nFarewell, like endless welcome, lived and died.\r\n\r\n              -- By Lord Alfred Tennyson\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extract from one of Tennyson&#8217;s earlier poems &#8230; Love and Duty. The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good, The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill, And all good things from evil, brought the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/love-and-duty\/\">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":[27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}