{"id":9567,"date":"2012-07-12T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/12\/i-dreamed-i-saw-st-augustine\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:25:03","slug":"i-dreamed-i-saw-st-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/12\/i-dreamed-i-saw-st-augustine\/","title":{"rendered":"All Along the Watchtower"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9:<\/span><\/p>\n

     Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye<\/span>
     princes, and prepare the shield. For thus hath the Lord said unto<\/span>
     me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. And he saw a<\/span>
     chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a<\/span>
     chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with such heed. . .<\/span>
     . And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of<\/span>
     horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,<\/span>
     and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the<\/span>
     ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

     "There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,<\/span>
     "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.<\/span>
     Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,<\/span>
     None of them along the line know what any of it is worth." <\/span><\/p>\n

     "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,<\/span>
     "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.<\/span>
     But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,<\/span>
     So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."<\/span><\/p>\n

     All along the watchtower, princes kept the view<\/span>
     While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.<\/span>
     Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,<\/span>
     Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.<\/span><\/p>\n

The absurdist sensibility of Bringing It All Back Home<\/em>, Highway 61 Revisited<\/em>, and Blonde on Blonde<\/em> gave way, after the July 1966 motorcycle accident, to a renewed seriousness. Life is no joke. We've been  through that. No more talking falsely now, the hour is getting late.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9:      Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye     princes, and prepare the shield. For thus hath the Lord said unto     me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. And he saw a     chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot … Continue reading “All Along the Watchtower”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,18,574],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-music","category-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","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=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}