{"id":232,"date":"2010-04-30T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:00:45","slug":"new-poem-the-soft-cool-blanket-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"New Poem: &#8220;The Soft, Cool Blanket of Night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, I love ancient Greek\u00a0literature\/ mythology. I read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Oedipus Rex<\/span> for what has to be at least the twentieth time the other day. I started reading it again mostly because I wanted to double-check the spelling of &#8220;Tiresias,&#8221; but once I started, I had to finish the story. Of course, I knew what was coming, but watching the tragedy unfold, seeing the inevitability of it, is what makes the story great.<\/p>\n<p>For your reading pleasure, I present a poem that features some Greek mythological references. I hope you enjoy it. As always, your feedback is welcome and encouraged.<\/p>\n<h2>The Soft, Cool Blanket of Night<\/h2>\n<p>wrap me in the soft, cool blanket of night.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nwaning,<br \/>\nthe moon peers down at me<br \/>\nlike the heavy-lidded eye of some cyclops.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nand if I be lost like poor Odysseus,<br \/>\ncloak me in the soft, warm wool of night.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nand if my eyes fail me like old Tiresias,<br \/>\nstitch the cloth with the needles of the king,<br \/>\nand wrap me in the soft, cool wisdom of night.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nand if the trees reach out for me<br \/>\nlike the souls of the dead,<br \/>\nblanket me in the soft, cool mists of the Styx.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nwrap me in the soft, cool blanket of night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, I love ancient Greek\u00a0literature\/ mythology. I read Oedipus Rex for what has to be at least the twentieth time the other day. I started reading it again mostly because I wanted to double-check the spelling of &#8220;Tiresias,&#8221; but once I started, I had to finish the story. Of course, I knew what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,27],"tags":[106,153,187,198,261,330,400,420,466,480,489,498,506,517,666,692,717,727,776,779],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-blanket","tag-cloth","tag-cyclops","tag-dead","tag-eye","tag-greek","tag-king","tag-literature","tag-mist","tag-moon","tag-mythology","tag-needles","tag-night","tag-oedipus","tag-soul","tag-styx","tag-tiresias","tag-trees","tag-wisdom","tag-wool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgg9VX-3K","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaygh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}