{"id":1450,"date":"2023-04-25T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:42:18","slug":"the-eyes-of-the-seer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes of The Seer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night I dreamed that I returned to Delphi.&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The untamed woods with gnarled green branches thrusting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skyward from dark trunks, those ancient groves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nestling on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The marble portico of the temple of &nbsp;<a href=\"#_ftn3\" id=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apollo, the colonnade dappled with a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chiaroscuro of light and shade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where we poured out libations to the God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pythia, the priestess of the temple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where the Delphic oracle resides, standing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tall, the conduit between the God and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men.&nbsp;&nbsp; What can I say about perhaps the\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE SCENE IS THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT KLAROS, ONE OF THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT ORACLES IN THE GREEK WORLD, ONLY THE ORACLE AT DELPHI BEING MORE IMPORTANT.&nbsp;&nbsp; KALKAS, THE GREEK SEER AT TROY, HAS COME TO PETITION THE GOD.&nbsp;&nbsp; HE IS MET BY THE PYTHIA. <a href=\"#_ftn4\" id=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kalkas, without rival in augury, why are you here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O Pythia, Priestess of The Temple, I seek to drink of The Water of Insight and gain &nbsp;knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thrice will my Master,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God Apollo,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allow you to drink of The Water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oracle will show what The Oracle will show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you see?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see a scarlet dawn at the fishing port of Aulis,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Achaean long-boats are weather-bound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A strong north wind stops the fleet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From sailing to Troy to avenge Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the abduction of Helen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huge white-tipped waves crash against the shore,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taut sails snap resoundingly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The raucous calls of sea birds add to the cacophony,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boats strain against worn hawsers <a href=\"#_ftn5\" id=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our stores are nearly depleted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men are muttering and complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <em>know<\/em> this!&nbsp;&nbsp; I was there!&nbsp;&nbsp; I asked for knowledge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <em>is<\/em> knowledge!&nbsp;&nbsp; The Oracle will show what The Oracle will show!&nbsp;&nbsp; What else do you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I say to King Agamemnon, The Commander-in-Chief,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArtemis must be propitiated!\u201d <a href=\"#_ftn6\" id=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see a father crucified by rage and pain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In agonised indecision, his tears falling fulsomely, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He knows what he must do, but the cost!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troy awaits.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Goddess demands.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He makes his choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see Iphigenia, his daughter, brought bound, to the altar,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her lovely dark eyes wide and wild,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innocent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Struggling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pitied and pitiable,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Praying that he might stay his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet Agamemnon, ordering her gagged,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sacrifices her for the common good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His knife cuts deep,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her blood spurting, steaming and staining.<a href=\"#_ftn7\" id=\"_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Goddess is appeased.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The north wind veers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>The sea is now calm.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troops run to the boats,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hoist the sails.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fleet disembarks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troy is ahead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take your second sip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully I will see something that I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oracle will show what The Oracle will show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mortal, with one blow I am about to take away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From you the delight of your eyes;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your tears run down.&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn8\" id=\"_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sigh, but not aloud;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">make no mourning for the dead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bind on your turban, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">put your sandals on your feet;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">do not cover your upper lip or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">eat the bread of mourners.&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn9\" id=\"_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is speaking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see the prophet, Ezekiel,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Standing in a cold, dark, morning of his people\u2019s exile,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Word of The Lord God Almighty,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The King of Glory, coming to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is the King of Glory?&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn10\" id=\"_ftnref10\">[10]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you mean Zeus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not know.&nbsp;&nbsp; The meaning is oblique.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prophet\u2019s wife will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is being commanded not to carry out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The normal funerary rites of his culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see his indecision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The command is from his God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compliance is mandatory,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet she is his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To obey or not to obey, that is the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hear Ezekiel say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I spoke to the people in the morning, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">at evening my wife died.&nbsp; <a href=\"#_ftn11\" id=\"_ftnref11\">[11]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take your third sip.&nbsp;&nbsp; What do you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see Troy in the noon-day sun,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The walls breached by trickery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City sacked and burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spoils divided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see blood running in the streets,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men, women and children,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slaughtered, crowd the underworld,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never to return. <a href=\"#_ftn12\" id=\"_ftnref12\">[12]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trojan women are carried off as prizes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By victorious Achaean warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see Paris killed by the archer, Philoktetes, &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avenge Helen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See her rescued by her husband, Menelaus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <em>know<\/em> this!&nbsp;&nbsp; I was there!&nbsp;&nbsp; I asked for knowledge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <em>is<\/em> knowledge!&nbsp;&nbsp; The Oracle will show what The Oracle will show!&nbsp;&nbsp; What else do you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man suffers on a cross at a place called Golgotha,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darkness abounds, though it is afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see his distant gaze,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hear him cry out, \u201cit is finished\u201d, <a href=\"#_ftn13\" id=\"_ftnref13\">[13]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See him die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has won the victory and <em>will<\/em> return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see other battles, other wars,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Called by names unknown to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gettysburg, El Alamein,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salamis, The Teutoburg Forest,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men and women dying innumerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see a day when the man who died on the cross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will sit in judgement on all people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From every time in history,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All will rise to learn their fate,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see his name, it is Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <em>will<\/em> see him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you see anything else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KALKAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see my death,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tides of laughter sweeping over me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uncontrollable,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE PYTHIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thrice has my Master,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God Apollo,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allowed you to drink of The Water of Insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oracle showed what The Oracle showed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">III<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most famour of oracles?&nbsp;&nbsp; Did not Kalkas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The greatest Greek seer among the Argive fleet &nbsp;<a href=\"#_ftn14\" id=\"_ftnref14\">[14]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Troy, see past, present, and future,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the mystical lens of the God\u2019s eye?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 Ian David Wall 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Biblical quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Anglicized version, copyright \u00a9 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.&nbsp;&nbsp; Used by permission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" id=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> I used Pythian VII, The Odes of Pindar, p. 35, note 9, translated by C.M. Bowra, to research this poem.&nbsp;&nbsp; The poem is in anglicised Alcaic meter, my model was Tennyson\u2019s \u2018Milton\u2019, \u2018The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate\u2019, McMillan &amp; Co, 1896, p. 243,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" id=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> The second section of this poem is based on \u2018Fire, Famine, and Slaughter.&nbsp;&nbsp; A War Eclogue\u2019 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to Aria Ligi for suggesting that I should rewrite the original poem in this style<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" id=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> Thanks to Aria Ligi for her suggestion of \u201cworn\u201d hawsers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" id=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> In researching this poem I used Ovid, \u2018Metamorposes\u2019, Book XII, lines 39-40, Norton Critical Edition, translated by Charles Martin, W.W. Norton &amp; Co.&nbsp;&nbsp; Artemis, a Greek Goddess who Agamemnon had angered, demanded a sacrifice from him before she would allow the fleet to sail to Troy.&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" id=\"_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> Inspired by Aeschylus, \u2018Agamemnon\u2019, lines 185 \u2013 256, Penguin Classics, Robert Fagles\u2019 translation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" id=\"_ftn8\">[8]<\/a> Ezekiel 24: 16,&nbsp; NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref9\" id=\"_ftn9\">[9]<\/a> Ezekiel 24: 17, NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref10\" id=\"_ftn10\">[10]<\/a> Psalm 24: 8, NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref11\" id=\"_ftn11\">[11]<\/a> Ezekiel 24: 18, NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref12\" id=\"_ftn12\">[12]<\/a> Inspired by Homer\u2019s \u2018Iliad\u2019, Robert Fitzgerald\u2019s translation, The World\u2019s Classics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref13\" id=\"_ftn13\">[13]<\/a> John 19:30, NRSV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref14\" id=\"_ftn14\">[14]<\/a> Of Argos, a city in Greece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Last night I dreamed that I returned to Delphi.&nbsp; [1] [2] The untamed woods with gnarled green branches thrusting Skyward from dark trunks, those ancient groves Nestling on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The marble portico of the temple of &nbsp;[3] Apollo, the colonnade dappled with a Chiaroscuro of light and shade Where we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iandavidwallpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}