{"id":2045,"date":"2013-01-31T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:20:26","slug":"john-keats-this-living-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/01\/31\/john-keats-this-living-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"John Keats: &#8220;This Living Hand&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some spring semesters, CC202 studies the works of John Keats. Here is an interesting untitled fragment the Romantic poet scribbled in a margin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This living hand, now warm and capable<br \/>\nOf earnest grasping, would, if it were cold<br \/>\nAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,<br \/>\nSo haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights<br \/>\nThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood<br \/>\nSo in my veins red life might stream again,<br \/>\nAnd thou be conscience-calmed\u2014see here it is\u2014<br \/>\nI hold it towards you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A thought-provoking discussion about it:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/14tGbSY\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/14tGbSY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some spring semesters, CC202 studies the works of John Keats. Here is an interesting untitled fragment the Romantic poet scribbled in a margin: This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,2534,4151],"tags":[37529,6210,37530,37532,37356,37527,37528,3830,37531,197,37533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"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\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}