{"id":3516,"date":"2025-10-01T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:58:53","slug":"the-faerie-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/the-faerie-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faerie Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lo I the man,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/15272\/15272-h\/15272-h.htm#Nt_Int.1\">\u00b0<\/a> whose Muse whilome did maske,<\/p>\n<p>As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,<a name=\"Int.3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,<a name=\"Int.4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">And sing of Knights and Ladies<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/15272\/15272-h\/15272-h.htm#Nt_Int.5\">\u00b0<\/a>\u00a0gentle deeds;<a name=\"Int.6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">Whose prayses having slept in silence long,<a name=\"Int.7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds<a name=\"Int.8\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"i2\">To blazon broade emongst her learned throng:<a name=\"Int.9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edmund Spenser<\/p>\n<p>the first of 4,000 verses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo I the man,\u00b0 whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies\u00b0\u00a0gentle deeds; Whose prayses having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[218,1286],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-edmund-spenser","tag-the-faerie-queen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}