{"id":906,"date":"2007-06-13T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2007-06-13T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:42:51","slug":"happy-142nd-birthday-william-butler-yeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Happy 142nd Birthday, William Butler Yeats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<b>The Cat And The Moon<\/b><br \/>\nWilliam Butler Yeats\n<\/div>\n<p>The cat went here and there<br \/>\nAnd the moon spun round like a top,<br \/>\nAnd the nearest kin of the moon,<br \/>\nThe creeping cat, looked up.<br \/>\nBlack Minnaloushe stared at the moon,<br \/>\nFor, wander and wail as he would,<br \/>\nThe pure cold light in the sky<br \/>\nTroubled his animal blood.<br \/>\nMinnaloushe runs in the grass<br \/>\nLifting his delicate feet.<br \/>\nDo you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?<br \/>\nWhen two close kindred meet.<br \/>\nWhat better than call a dance?<br \/>\nMaybe the moon may learn,<br \/>\nTired of that courtly fashion,<br \/>\nA new dance turn.<br \/>\nMinnaloushe creeps through the grass<br \/>\nFrom moonlit place to place,<br \/>\nThe sacred moon overhead<br \/>\nHas taken a new phase.<br \/>\nDoes Minnaloushe know that his pupils<br \/>\nWill pass from change to change,<br \/>\nAnd that from round to crescent,<br \/>\nFrom crescent to round they range?<br \/>\nMinnaloushe creeps through the grass<br \/>\nAlone, important and wise,<br \/>\nAnd lifts to the changing moon<br \/>\nHis changing eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish poet (1865-1939) was born on June 13. Below, one of his cat poems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-life","category-the-universe","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}