{"id":13877,"date":"2021-02-19T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T05:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:36:44","slug":"sonnet-to-the-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=13877","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet to the Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"rightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HecateWithHounds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HecateWithHounds-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hecate\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Born in ignorance, and tempted by sin<br \/>\nAroused by beauty and to passions bound<br \/>\nLove and adventure, the knight has found,<br \/>\nNot in the world for the struggle\u2019s within.<\/p>\n<p>The greater battle is by far the best;<br \/>\nIn Napoli he lay dying in bed<br \/>\nEre his journey to the home of the dead<br \/>\nRidwan assures that he has passed the test.<\/p>\n<p>A glowing torch in the moonlighted sky<br \/>\nGuides the knight on the path to the river<br \/>\nHowling hounds tell him the goddess is nigh<\/p>\n<p>Hecate assuages his hidden fear.<br \/>\nAt the crossroads she will him deliver,<br \/>\nThere she will whisper his poem in God\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13877-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/library\/OdeToTheKnight.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/library\/OdeToTheKnight.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/library\/OdeToTheKnight.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knight&#8217;s final journey, following his Psychopomp.<br \/>\n <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=13877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17120,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/17120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}