{"id":1140,"date":"2008-11-04T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2018-08-11T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:20:41","slug":"tuesday-november-4-2008-just-after-midnight-to-a-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, November 4, 2008 (just after midnight) \u2014 To a Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And I did indeed read some Whit\u00adman, just at mid\u00adnight. The first sec\u00adtion of Leaves of Grass, \u201cInscrip\u00adtions\u201d, which of course starts with \u201cOne\u2019s-Self I Sing\u201d, and con\u00adtains famil\u00adiar poems such as \u201cIn Cab\u00adin\u2019d Ships at Sea\u201d, \u201cI Hear Amer\u00adi\u00adca Singing\u201d, \u201cStart\u00ading from Pau\u00admanok\u201d and the superb \u201cSong of Myself\u201d. But among them I rel\u00adished one rarely cit\u00aded, and which I had for\u00adgot\u00adten: \u201cTo a His\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan\u201d.&nbsp;To some\u00adone like me, who con\u00adsid\u00aders him\u00adself both a his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan and a Sci\u00adence Fic\u00adtion writer, this one is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>You who cel\u00ade\u00adbrate bygones,<br> Who have explored the out\u00adward, the sur\u00adfaces of the&nbsp;races,<br> the life that has exhib\u00adit\u00aded itself,<br> Who have treat\u00aded of man as the crea\u00adture of politics,<br> aggre\u00adgates, rulers and priests,<br> I, habi\u00adtan of the Allegha\u00adnies, treat\u00ading of him as he is&nbsp;in<br> him\u00adself in his own rights,<br> Press\u00ading the pulse of the life that has sel\u00addom exhib\u00adit\u00aded itself,<br> (the great pride of man in himself,)<br> Chanter of Per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, out\u00adlin\u00ading what is yet to&nbsp;be,<br> I project the his\u00adto\u00adry of the future.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I did indeed read some Whit\u00adman, just at mid\u00adnight. The first sec\u00adtion of Leaves of Grass, \u201cInscrip\u00adtions\u201d, which of course starts with \u201cOne\u2019s\u2011Self I Sing\u201d, and con\u00adtains famil\u00adiar poems such as \u201cIn Cab\u00adin\u2019d Ships at Sea\u201d, \u201cI Hear America&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1140\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}