{"id":309,"date":"2021-01-05T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=309"},"modified":"2021-01-29T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:03:20","slug":"the-journey-of-the-magi-by-t-s-eliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/the-journey-of-the-magi-by-t-s-eliot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of the Magi – T. S. Eliot (1927)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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T.S. Eliot reads his own poem that you can listen to here<\/a>. The story of the three kings that set off in the night to bring presents to a new-born baby. Melchior, Casper, and Balthazar offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh. I must say I prefer the poems of the “Old Possum Book of Practical Cats” or the version of this poem read by Hugh Laurie\u2026so much sexier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death ? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt.
I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T.S. Eliot reads his own poem that you can listen to here. The story of the three kings that set off in the night to bring presents to a new-born baby. Melchior, Casper, and Balthazar offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh. I must say I prefer the poems of the “Old Possum Book of Practical Cats” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[88,56,89],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","category-poems","tag-birth","tag-death","tag-faith"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/steph-smith-K_SzMtxTmtg-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}