{"id":8722,"date":"2013-08-31T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2013-08-31T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:01:45","slug":"seamus-heaney-1939-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/seamus-heaney-1939-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alamogordo-Aug-2001-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alamogordo-Aug-2001-AS-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Alamogordo, Aug 2001 (AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alamogordo-Aug-2001-AS-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alamogordo-Aug-2001-AS-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Alamogordo-Aug-2001-AS.jpg 2022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1995\/heaney-poems-3-e.html\">Seeing Thing<\/a>s<\/em> (1991):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lightenings viii<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise<br \/>\nWere all at prayers inside the oratory<br \/>\nA ship appeared above them in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The anchor dragged along behind so deep<br \/>\nIt hooked itself into the altar rails<br \/>\nAnd then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill,<\/p>\n<p>A crewman shinned and grappled down the rope<br \/>\nAnd struggled to release it. But in vain.<br \/>\n&#8216;This man can&#8217;t bear our life here and will drown,&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The abbot said, &#8216;unless we help him.&#8217; So<br \/>\nThey did, the freed ship sailed, and the man climbed back<br \/>\nOut of the marvellous as he had known it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Seeing Things (1991): Lightenings viii The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor dragged along behind so deep It hooked itself into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/seamus-heaney-1939-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}