{"id":2487,"date":"2009-04-09T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:02:36","slug":"the-assassins-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/the-assassins-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Assassins: One"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Hashish Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Swear off wine and drink from the cup of Haydar,<br \/>\namber\u2013scented, smarigdite green.<br \/>\nLook: it is offered to you<br \/>\nby a slender Turkish gazelle who<br \/>\nsways delicate as a willow bough.<br \/>\nAs he prepares it, you might<br \/>\ncompare it to the traces of<br \/>\nfine down on a blushing cheek<br \/>\nsince even the slightest breeze<br \/>\nmakes it move as if in the<br \/>\ncoolness of a drunken morning when<br \/>\nsilvery pigeons might whisper in<br \/>\nbranches filling its vegetal soul with<br \/>\ntheir mutual emotions.<br \/>\nHow many meanings it has,<br \/>\nsignificances unknown to wine!<br \/>\nSo close your ears<br \/>\nto the Old Censor&#8217;s slander!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em>&mdash;attributed to Ibn Khamis, 13th century Spain, or Ibn al\u2013A&#8217;ma, 12th century Egypt\/Syria<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I am building to something here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Hashish Poem Swear off wine and drink from the cup of Haydar, amber\u2013scented, smarigdite green. Look: it is offered to you by a slender Turkish gazelle who sways delicate as a willow bough. As he prepares it, you might compare it to the traces of fine down on a blushing cheek since even the slightest breeze makes it move as&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/the-assassins-one\/\">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":[5],"tags":[384,385,194,330],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-assassins","tag-blackman","tag-poem","tag-secret-history","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-E7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}