{"id":916,"date":"2012-10-22T00:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T00:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=916"},"modified":"2012-10-21T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T00:41:53","slug":"the-second-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/10\/the-second-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this while writing a review of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/10\/the-walking-dead-season-2\/\">The Walking Dead<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0Some of the phrases here are among my favorite, and have stuck with me now for a long time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>The Second Coming<\/strong><br \/>\nWilliam Butler Yeats,\u00a01919<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Are full of passionate intensity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Surely some revelation is at hand;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The darkness drops again but now I know<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That twenty centuries of stony sleep<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this while writing a review of The Walking Dead. \u00a0Some of the phrases here are among my favorite, and have stuck with me now for a long time. The Second Coming William Butler Yeats,\u00a01919 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2012\/10\/the-second-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[119,118],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-poetry","tag-post-apocalyptic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}