{"id":136911,"date":"2018-09-05T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T22:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136911"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T02:51:03","slug":"yeats-and-modern-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/yeats-and-modern-american-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Yeats and Modern American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br \/>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br \/>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br \/>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br \/>The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br \/>Are full of passionate intensity.&quot;<br \/>And Yeats never heard of Trump<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WandstrasseHurensohn (@WHurensohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHurensohn\/status\/1037447892703752192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>RT @WHurensohn: &#8220;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br \/>\nMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br \/>\nThe blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.&quot;And Yeats never heard of Trump &mdash; WandstrasseHurensohn (@WHurensohn) September 5, 2018 RT @WHurensohn: &#8220;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/yeats-and-modern-american-politics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yeats and Modern American Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,9,358,1071],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-136911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2473,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/not_in_my_name.html","url_meta":{"origin":136911,"position":0},"title":"Not in My Name!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jun-02 8:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"A group of brave artists, writers, actors, and other folks who'd really like us to pay attention to them have bravely issued a statement condemning all the Evil Things the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30045,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/playing-politics-while-vesuvius-burns.html","url_meta":{"origin":136911,"position":1},"title":"Playing politics while Vesuvius burns","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Aug-12 10:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Insights into Roman politics from wall paintings in Pompeii. 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