No man is an island,
\nEntire of itself,
\nEvery man is a piece of the continent,
\nA part of the main..
\nIf a clod be washed away by the sea,
\nEurope is the less.
\nAs well as if a promontory were.
\nAs well as if a manor of thy friend’s
\nOr of thine own were:
\nAny man’s death diminishes me,
\nBecause I am involved in mankind,
\nAnd therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
\nIt tolls for thee.<\/p>\n
John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions<\/em>, 1624.<\/p>\n I go and it is done: the bell invites me.<\/p>\n Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell<\/p>\n That summons thee to heaven or to hell.<\/p>\n William Shakespeare, Macbeth<\/em>, Act II Scene i, circa 1606.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend’s Or of thine own were: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}