{"id":167,"date":"2010-09-29T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:14:59","slug":"analects-of-the-core-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/29\/analects-of-the-core-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Ferry on cooked food"},"content":{"rendered":"

In view of a recent change in our department lounge refreshments policy — namely, we know set out a bowl of fresh fruit for students and visitors, rather than one filled with toothsome but unhealthy candy — today’s Analect of the Core has to do with food. From David Ferry’s<\/a> version of the epic Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a>, Tablet II, pp. 12-13:<\/p>\n

They cooked food and set it down before him;
\nthey brought out beer they had brewed and set it down.<\/p>\n

But Enkidu knew nothing about these things,
\nso he sat and stared at the cooked food and the beer<\/p>\n

for a very long time, not knowing what to do.
\nThen Shamhat, the harlot, the temple prostitute,<\/p>\n

said: “Enkidu, this is the food and drink
\nmen eat and drink. Eat and drink your fill.”<\/p>\n

So Enkidu ate his fill of the cooked food,
\nand drank the beer. Seven jugs of the beer<\/p>\n

and he was suddenly joyful, and sang aloud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In view of a recent change in our department lounge refreshments policy — namely, we know set out a bowl of fresh fruit for students and visitors, rather than one filled with toothsome but unhealthy candy — today’s Analect of the Core has to do with food. From David Ferry’s version of the epic Gilgamesh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3689,3687,3688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}