{"id":4572,"date":"2019-12-10T11:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:58:03","slug":"no-library-like-the-spoken-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-library-like-the-spoken-word\/","title":{"rendered":"No Library Like the Spoken Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Books and knowledge gathered together
\nBut arrived Invaders and a tyrants yoke
\nAll then to then was ever known
\nIt all went up in smoke.<\/p>\n

Theories, expressions of a time
\nOffended a powerful few
\nThey too offered Sparks of knowledge to the air
\nAs pyres are known to do\u2026<\/p>\n

Collections amassed of an interest
\nLibrary of a lifetime amassed
\nOf no worth, yet worth more than price
\nThe flame sent them to the past.<\/p>\n

The spoken word, though wandering with the years
\nSurvives fate, despots and tyrants yoke
\nThrough languages as they evolve over generations
\nWhen libraries go up in smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books and knowledge gathered together But arrived Invaders and a tyrants yoke All then to then was ever known It all went up in smoke. Theories, expressions of a time Offended a powerful few They too offered Sparks of knowledge to the air As pyres are known to do\u2026 Collections …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,77,54],"tags":[2135,65,4093,2134],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-ghost-stories","category-ireland","tag-folk-history","tag-life-2","tag-looking-back","tag-storytelling","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1bK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/seeing-beneath-the-surface-at-tullamores-scratch-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":4572,"position":0},"title":"Seeing Beneath the Surface at Tullamore’s “SCRATCH” Gallery","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th November 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Tullamore's latest artistic endeavor is the brainchild of self proclaimed blow in Richard Brennan, the SCRATCH Gallery in Tullamore Library. 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