{"id":765,"date":"2011-02-18T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=765"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:02:07","slug":"analects-of-the-core-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/18\/analects-of-the-core-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Burns on honesty and poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there, for honest poverty,
\nThat hangs his head, and a’ that?
\nThe coward-slave, we pass him by,
\nWe dare be poor for a’ that!
\nFor a’ that, and a’ that,
\nOur toils obscure, and a’ that;
\nThe rank is but the guinea-stamp,
\nThe man ‘s the gowd for a’ that!<\/p>\n

What tho’ on hamely fare we dine,
\nWear hoddin grey, and a’ that;
\nGie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
\nA man ‘s a man, for a’ that!
\nFor a’ that, and a’ that,
\nTheir tinsel show, and a’ that;
\nThe honest man, though e’er sae poor,
\nIs king o’ men for a’ that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– from “Is There for Honest Poverty” by Robert Burns, whose poetry among others’ will be considered by Prof. Christopher Ricks<\/a> in a lecture next Tuesday for the students of CC202<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a’ that? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, and a’ that, Our toils obscure, and a’ that; The rank is but the guinea-stamp, The man ‘s the gowd for a’ that! What tho’ on hamely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3831,197,3916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}