{"id":3437,"date":"2019-12-23T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/richard-crashaw-1612-1649\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T13:53:45","slug":"richard-crashaw-1612-1649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/23\/richard-crashaw-1612-1649\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Crashaw (1612-1649)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-feature-hd\">\n<h1 class=\"c-hdgSans c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-feature-sub c-feature-sub_vast\">\n<div><span class=\"c-txt c-txt_attribution\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/richard-crashaw\">Richard Crashaw<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem  isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\">\n<div>&#0160;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The world\u2019s light shines, shine as it will, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The world will love its darkness still. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I doubt though when the world\u2019s in hell, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It will not love its darkness half so well.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&#0160;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44051\/but-men-loved-darkness-rather-than-light\">Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light By Richard Crashaw &#0160; The world\u2019s light shines, shine as it will, The world will love its darkness still. I doubt though when the world\u2019s in hell, It will not love its darkness half so well. &#0160; Source: Poetry Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}