{"id":2407,"date":"2013-08-31T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T08:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:26:47","slug":"follower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/08\/31\/follower\/","title":{"rendered":"Follower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post has nothing to do with science. Seamus Heany is dead.<\/p>\n<p>I am only begining to process what that means to me. I claim no deep knowledge of his poetry but it has been with me for a long time. I studied his work at school in the late 1970s; I have a few of his books of poems and prose on my shelves; I saw <em>The Cure at Troy<\/em> at the Tricycle theatre in 1991; I heard him speak once \u2014 when I was a postdoc in Boston in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Several of his poems remain with me. <em>Follower<\/em> is one I particularly remember. You can hear me read it below (though I do not have <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/08\/26\/remembering-innisfree\/\">Yeats&#8217; talent for declamation<\/a>). Now that I am a son and a father, the kick at the end is all the more haunting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F108136464\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post has nothing to do with science. Seamus Heany is dead. I am only begining to process what that means to me. I claim no deep knowledge of his poetry but it has been with me for a long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2013\/08\/31\/follower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}