{"id":2359,"date":"2012-04-09T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-young-by-wilfred\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:52:37","slug":"parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-young-by-wilfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-young-by-wilfred\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parable of the Old Man and the Young<\/strong><br \/>by Wilfred Owen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,<br \/>And took the fire with him, and a knife.<br \/>And as they sojourned both of them together,<br \/>Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,<br \/>Behold the preparations, fire and iron,<br \/>But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?<br \/>Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,<br \/>and builded parapets and trenches there,<br \/>And stretch\u00e8d forth the knife to slay his son.<br \/>When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,<br \/>Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,<br \/>Neither do anything to him. Behold,<br \/>A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;<br \/>Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.<br \/>But the old man would not so, but slew his son,<br \/>And half the seed of Europe, one by one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>This poem by World War I-era poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilfred_owen\" target=\"_blank\">Wilfred Owen<\/a> uses the biblical theme of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akeda\" target=\"_blank\">Akeda (Binding of Isaac)<\/a> to make an anti-war statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by Jonathan Karp, American Jewish Historical Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parable of the Old Man and the Youngby Wilfred Owen\u00a0 So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,And took the fire with him, and a knife.And as they sojourned both of them together,Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,Behold the preparations, fire and iron,But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,and builded parapets and trenches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1229,962,1228,435],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-akeda","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-wilfred-owen","tag-world-war-i","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}