{"id":1213,"date":"2011-09-06T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:19:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T22:19:57","slug":"analects-of-the-core-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/06\/analects-of-the-core-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Ferry on terrified gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Terrified gods got themselves up as high<br \/>\nas they could go, nearest the highest heaven,<br \/>\ncringing against the wall like beaten dogs.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Lines 20-22, in Book III of Tablet XI, of <a href=\"www.bu.edu\/core\/features\/2009-5-15-Ferry.htm\">David Ferry<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;rendering in verse&#8221; of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gilgamesh-New-Rendering-English-Verse\/dp\/0374523835\" title=\"Amazon\">Epic of Gilgamesh<\/a>, studied in the first-year Core Humanties, and the topic of Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/awards\/metcalf\/cup\/cup-past\/brian-jorgensen\/\">Brian Jorgensen<\/a>&#8216;s first lecture to the Core freshmen this morning in CC101.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrified gods got themselves up as high as they could go, nearest the highest heaven, cringing against the wall like beaten dogs. * Lines 20-22, in Book III of Tablet XI, of David Ferry&#8217;s &#8220;rendering in verse&#8221; of the Epic of Gilgamesh, studied in the first-year Core Humanties, and the topic of Prof. Brian Jorgensen&#8217;s [&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":[3689,6569,3688,6570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}