{"id":1434,"date":"2023-10-03T01:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T01:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:04:59","slug":"seductress-of-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Seductress of the Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-825x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1435\" style=\"width:840px;height:1042px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-768x953.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-1238x1536.jpg 1238w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f35-2-1651x2048.jpg 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Dante and the She-Wolf by Gustave Dor\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl on the screen<br>She\u2019s no queen,<br>Neither you nor me<br>Does she see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With soulless stare<br>Devoid of care,<br>She leads men astray<br>From the true way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019ll never hold your flower,<br>Nor admire your humorous power.<br>You\u2019ll never talk to her after class,<br>Or take her with you to Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never will she say, \u201cI love <em>you<\/em>.&#8221;<br>Then why say in your soul, \u201cI do&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Ecclesiasticus 9:3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8,26],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-faith","tag-nature"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}