{"id":361,"date":"2017-04-12T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-04-12T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:17:44","slug":"crashaw-and-christ-as-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/for-the-love-of-god\/crashaw-and-christ-as-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashaw and Christ as Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crashaw&#8217;s poem &#8220;On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord&#8221; struck me for the descriptions of Christ&#8217;s body parts. The metaphors surrounding his wounds reminded me of the way poets liked to list the different body parts of their lover to compare them to other objects (blazon). I think an inspired technique is being used here, particularly in the second stanza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crashaw&#8217;s poem &#8220;On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord&#8221; struck me for the descriptions of Christ&#8217;s body parts. The metaphors surrounding his wounds reminded me of the way poets liked to list the different body parts of their lover to compare them to other objects (blazon). I think an inspired technique is being used here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","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\/361","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\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}