{"id":1631,"date":"2023-12-22T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:44:32","slug":"the-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"The Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pieter_Goddyn_-_The_Greek_Sinon_before_Priam.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pieter_Goddyn_-_The_Greek_Sinon_before_Priam.jpg 640w, https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Pieter_Goddyn_-_The_Greek_Sinon_before_Priam-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pieter_Goddyn_-_The_Greek_Sinon_before_Priam.jpg\">The Greek Sinon before Priam by Pieter Goddyn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally a shade comes to me<br>To tell, to make me see<br>A truth to set me free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it has not the Savior\u2019s aspect,<br>Nor his Mother\u2019s respect.<br>\u201cA friend?\u201d \u201cA serpent?\u201d I suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before me this princess stands<br>Laying palms in my hands;<br>I refuse, seeing beyond her plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere is the horse, Sinon?<br>In the name of God, be gone!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This fraud of Sinon, his accomplished lying,<br \/>\nWon us over; a tall tale and fake tears<br \/>\nHad captured us, whom neither Diomedes<br \/>\nNor Larisean Achilles overpowered,<br \/>\nNor ten long years, nor all their thousand ships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Aeneid II. 268-272 (trans. by Fitzgerald).<\/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],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-faith"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmenidean.is\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}