{"id":2101,"date":"2013-02-07T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:59:38","slug":"analects-of-the-core-178-david-ferry-on-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/07\/analects-of-the-core-178-david-ferry-on-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Ferry on storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the coming storm tomorrow, the Core would like to remind everyone to remain calm and intellectual. To aid this process, here is a sample from David Ferry&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Epic of <\/em><i>Gilgamesh <\/i>(studied in CC101), on the relevant topic of storms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the early hours of the next morning dawning<br \/>\nthere was the noise of Adad in the clouds<\/p>\n<p>that rose and filled the morning sky with blackness.<br \/>\nShullat the herald of the dread Adad<\/p>\n<p>moved out over the mountains and over the valleys,<br \/>\nbellowing; Hanish the herald of the dread<\/p>\n<p>Adad moved over the plains and over the cities;<br \/>\neverything turned to darkness as to night.<\/p>\n<p>From time to time the Annunaki blazed<br \/>\nterrible light. Then rain came down in floods.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Core encourages students not to worry and to stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In view of the coming storm tomorrow, the Core would like to remind everyone to remain calm and intellectual. To aid this process, here is a sample from David Ferry&#8217;s\u00a0Epic of Gilgamesh (studied in CC101), on the relevant topic of storms: &#8220;In the early hours of the next morning dawning there was the noise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,3691,244,477,2534],"tags":[3577,44821,3687,5128,3688,44820,4736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}