{"id":208,"date":"2009-07-31T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-07-31T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:58:20","slug":"on-the-cards-and-dice-sir-walter-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"On the Cards and Dice &#8211; Sir Walter Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:_On the Cards and Dice_.mp3] (:59)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Robert Pinsky  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2218933\/\" target=\"blank\">The Slate Poetry Podcast<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before the sixth day of the next new year,<br \/>\nStrange wonders in this kingdom shall appear:<br \/>\nFour kings shall be assembled in this isle,<br \/>\nWhere they shall keep great tumult for awhile.<br \/>\nMany men then shall have an end of crosses,<br \/>\nAnd many likewise shall sustain great losses;<br \/>\nMany that now full joyful are and glad,<br \/>\nShall at that time be sorrowful and sad;<br \/>\nFull many a Christian&#8217;s heart shall quake for fear,<br \/>\nThe dreadful sound of trump when he shall hear.<br \/>\nDead bones shall then be tumbled up and down,<br \/>\nIn every city and in every town.<br \/>\nBy day or night this tumult shall not cease,<br \/>\nUntil an herald shall proclaim a peace;<br \/>\nAn herald strange, the like was never born,<br \/>\nWhose very beard is flesh and mouth is horn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:_On the Cards and Dice_.mp3] (:59) read by Robert Pinsky audio from The Slate Poetry Podcast. Before the sixth day of the next new year, Strange wonders in this kingdom shall appear: Four kings shall be assembled in this isle, Where they shall keep great tumult for awhile. Many men then shall have an end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-dead-bones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}