{"id":344,"date":"2017-04-12T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=344"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:10:56","slug":"a-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/for-the-love-of-god\/a-rapture\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to make sense of the last few lines of Carew&#8217;s &#8220;The Rapture.&#8221; Carew concludes the erotic\/religious poem with: &#8220;Then tell me why\/ This goblin Honor which the world adores\/ Should make men atheists and not women whores&#8221; (164-166). Is he being earnest in claiming that Honor makes men atheists while not making women whores, or is this entirely facetious? Why might Honor be a goblin? Should women be whores? This is the first time I can recall the mention of atheism in the works we have read; typically we have looked at differing interpretations of Christianity. What might atheism&#8217;s role be in these conflicting factions of Christianity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to make sense of the last few lines of Carew&#8217;s &#8220;The Rapture.&#8221; Carew concludes the erotic\/religious poem with: &#8220;Then tell me why\/ This goblin Honor which the world adores\/ Should make men atheists and not women whores&#8221; (164-166). Is he being earnest in claiming that Honor makes men atheists while not making women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-love-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}