{"id":93,"date":"2009-11-02T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-04-08T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:43:59","slug":"caesura-its-not-the-end-of-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Caesura: it&#8217;s not the end of the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting use of this word in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2009\/oct\/19\/bertelsmann-mohn-succession\">Media Guardian article<\/a> about the death of Reinhard Mohn, the owner of Europe&#8217;s largest media group, Bertelsmann: &#8216;Mohn&#8217;s death has been described by German commentators as a &#8220;caesura&#8221;&#8216;. <\/p>\n<p>So is the afterlife just the second half of a line of verse? And if so, from which poem? <em>Paradise Lost<\/em> or <em>Paradise Regained<\/em>? &#8216;Futility&#8217; or &#8216;Easter Wings&#8217;? Or is this some deeply existential statement about life imitating art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the afterlife just the second half of a line of verse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-words","tag-punctuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}