{"id":2623,"date":"2012-01-05T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2012-01-05T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:45:53","slug":"ozymandias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"OZYMANDIAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=2624\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2624\" title=\"vaux le vicomte 1 5 12  80324 - Version 2\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vaux-le-vicomte-1-5-12-80324-Version-2-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vaux-le-vicomte-1-5-12-80324-Version-2-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vaux-le-vicomte-1-5-12-80324-Version-2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vaux-le-vicomte-1-5-12-80324-Version-2.jpg 1874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Ozymandias<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I met a traveler from an antique land<br \/>\nWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br \/>\nStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,<br \/>\nHalf sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<br \/>\nAnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<br \/>\nTell that its sculptor well those passions read<br \/>\nWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br \/>\nThe hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;<br \/>\nAnd on the pedestal these words appear:<br \/>\n\u201cMy name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<br \/>\nLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!\u201d<br \/>\nNothing beside remains. Round the decay<br \/>\nOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare<br \/>\nThe lone and level sands stretch far away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The story behind this chateau is one of hubris. Constructed while Versailles was underway. He invited the king to visit; Louis, the sun king, was not blind to the beauty of the Chateau and promptly imprisoned his host.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OZYMANDIAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1087,1088,1089],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chateau-vaux-le-comte","tag-ozymandias","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}