{"id":4202,"date":"2013-10-30T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:20:08","slug":"american-songbook-note-phillip-freneau-addresses-naked-liberty-on-his-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/american-songbook-note-phillip-freneau-addresses-naked-liberty-on-his-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"American Songbook Note: PHILLIP FRENEAU ADDRESSES NAKED LIBERTY ON HIS KNEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freneau is known as &#8220;the poet of the Revolution&#8221; with such works as &#8220;The Rising Glory of America&#8221; and was an early exponent of Romanticism.  Here, the opinionated Matawan, NJ resident is playing pat-a-cakes with pretty Liberty, as a good anti-Federalist ought to do in his spare time.  In his poem &#8220;Death&#8217;s Epitaph,&#8221; Freneau put these words into Death&#8217;s mouth: &#8220;slaves and Caesars were the same to me!&#8221;  It is a sentiment I think the Princeton-educated Freneau could probably have been heard to utter as he downed his rum at the old <em>Poet&#8217;s Inn<\/em>&#8211;now a <em>Mediterranean Cuisine<\/em> eatery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freneau is known as &#8220;the poet of the Revolution&#8221; with such works as &#8220;The Rising Glory of America&#8221; and was an early exponent of Romanticism. Here, the opinionated Matawan, NJ resident is playing pat-a-cakes with pretty Liberty, as a good anti-Federalist ought to do in his spare time. In his poem &#8220;Death&#8217;s Epitaph,&#8221; Freneau put <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/american-songbook-note-phillip-freneau-addresses-naked-liberty-on-his-knee\/' 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":[1732,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-songbook","category-endnotes","category-1732-id","category-14-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}