{"id":1229,"date":"2008-05-16T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2008-05-16T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T13:54:39","slug":"compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/compare-and-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare and contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabiannights.org\/rubaiyat\/index2.html\">High culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/29.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Pogany Illo.\" title=\"Pogany Illo.\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss&#8217;d<br \/>\nOf the Two Worlds so wisely&#8211;they are thrust<br \/>\nLike foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn<br \/>\nAre scatter&#8217;d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.<\/p>\n<p>Myself when young did eagerly frequent<br \/>\nDoctor and Saint, and heard great argument<br \/>\nAbout it and about: but evermore<br \/>\nCame out by the same door where in I went.<\/p>\n<p>With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,<br \/>\nAnd with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;<br \/>\nAnd this was all the Harvest that I reap&#8217;d&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;I came like Water, and like Wind I go.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>versus <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.ucsc.edu\/gdead\/agdl\/uncle.html\">pop culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/05\/syf_sand_200.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Like I Told Ya... What I Said...\" title=\"Like I Told Ya... What I Said...\" class=\"alignright\"\/>It&#8217;s the same story the crow told me; it&#8217;s the only one he knows.<br \/>\nLike the morning sun you come and like the wind you go.<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no time to hate, barely time to wait,<br \/>\nWo-oah, what I want to know, where does the time go? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">A recent argument about whether or not some of my friends had let some of the <em>really annoying<\/em> fans of the Dead colour their impressions of the actual works of the band has had me listening to them a lot this week. And I&#8217;ve just been reading something that put old Omar into my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">High culture: Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss&#8217;d Of the Two Worlds so wisely&#8211;they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter&#8217;d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/compare-and-contrast\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}