{"id":3923,"date":"2010-06-28T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2010-06-28T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T12:39:19","slug":"3923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/3923\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And thus Robert C. Byrd kicked the proverbial bucket at 92, which could become problematic for votes in the Senate under the Obama administration. That old southerner who made good (a politician who can change his mind and acknowledge that he was wrong is a rare bird indeed) he was a lover &amp; connoisseur of poetry. Here&#8217;s his favorite, <em>in memoriam<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"crossing\">\u201cCrossing the Bar\u201d<\/h3>\n<h4>by <em>Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Sunset and evening star<br \/>\nAnd one clear call for me!<br \/>\nAnd may there be no moaning of the bar,<br \/>\nWhen I put out to sea,<\/p>\n<p>But such a tide as moving seems asleep,<br \/>\nToo full for sound and foam,<br \/>\nWhen that which drew from out the boundless deep<br \/>\nTurns again home.<\/p>\n<p>Twilight and evening bell,<br \/>\nAnd after that the dark!<br \/>\nAnd may there be no sadness of farewell,<br \/>\nWhen I embark;<\/p>\n<p>For though from out our bourne of Time and Place<br \/>\nThe flood may bear me far,<br \/>\nI hope to see my Pilot face to face<br \/>\nWhen I have crossed the bar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And thus Robert C. Byrd kicked the proverbial bucket at 92, which could become problematic for votes in the Senate under the Obama administration. That old southerner who made good (a politician who can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,91],"tags":[138,643],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-poetry","tag-alfred-lord-tennyson","tag-robert-c-byrd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}