{"id":1093,"date":"2011-04-22T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T22:08:32","slug":"analects-of-the-core-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/04\/22\/analects-of-the-core-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Homer on the father figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Friend, let me put it in the plainest way.<\/p>\n<p>My mother says I am his son; I know not<\/p>\n<p>surely.\u00a0 Who has known his own engendering?<\/p>\n<p>I wish at least I had some happy man<\/p>\n<p>as father, growing old in his house&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>but unknown death and silence are the fate<\/p>\n<p>of him that, since you ask, they call my father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Homer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Odyssey-Fitzgerald-Translation-Homer\/dp\/0374525749\">The Odyssey<\/a> <\/em>(Book I, Lines 258-264), translator Robert Fitzgerald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend, let me put it in the plainest way. My mother says I am his son; I know not surely.\u00a0 Who has known his own engendering? I wish at least I had some happy man as father, growing old in his house&#8211; but unknown death and silence are the fate of him that, since you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,5776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}