{"id":2163,"date":"2011-09-14T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:20:32","slug":"the-albatross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/the-albatross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Albatross"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nLast Tuesday, for kicks, the cachinnate sea-crew\r\nDowned an albatross, a vast sea-bird,\r\nThe indolent companion of our wake, who lazily traced\r\nOur ship's slippage through bitter breakers.\r\n\r\nOnce deposed to the common planks,\r\nThis king of the wild blue stumbled in shame,\r\nPiteously dragging his white infinite wings\r\nLike chalky oars unmoored beside him.\r\n\r\nWinged voyager!  Now dementedly frail!\r\nO royal one!  Now splay and exposed!\r\nOne sailor crams His Highness' beak with a burning pipe;\r\nThe next limps and mimics this cripple who soared!\r\n\r\nThe Poet is one with this swift prince of the clouds\r\nWho haunts the tempest and mocks swart archers:\r\nExiled to earth's low hoots and threats,\r\nHis giant wings hobble each inch of his step.\r\n\r\n<em>--Charles Baudelaire<\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, for kicks, the cachinnate sea-crew Downed an albatross, a vast sea-bird, The indolent companion of our wake, who lazily traced Our ship&#8217;s slippage through bitter breakers. Once deposed to the common planks, This king of the wild blue stumbled in shame, Piteously dragging his white infinite wings Like chalky oars unmoored beside him. <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/the-albatross\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,1495],"tags":[404,1669,1668,1670,1672,1673,1671],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translations","category-black-champagne","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-giant-wings","tag-last-tuesday","tag-prince-of-the-clouds","tag-sea-bird","tag-sea-crew","tag-wild-blue","category-520-id","category-1495-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}