{"id":4330,"date":"2022-03-10T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2022-03-10T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T11:40:18","slug":"sonnet-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/shakespeare\/sonnets\/sonnet-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 45"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The other two, slight air, and purging fire<\/em><br><em>Are both with thee, wherever I abide;<\/em><br><em>The first my thought, the other my desire,<\/em><br><em>These present-absent with swift motion slide.<\/em><br><em>For when these quicker elements are gone<\/em><br><em>In tender embassy of love to thee,<\/em><br><em>My life, being made of four, with two alone<\/em><br><em>Sinks down to death, oppress\u2019d with melancholy;<\/em><br><em>Until life\u2019s composition be recured<\/em><br><em>By those swift messengers return\u2019d from thee,<\/em><br><em>Who even but now come back again, assured<\/em><br><em>Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:<\/em><br><em>This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,<\/em><br><em>I send them back again, and straight grow sad.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other two, slight air, and purging fireAre both with thee, wherever I abide;The first my thought, the other my desire,These present-absent with swift motion slide.For when these quicker elements are goneIn tender embassy of love to thee,My life, being made of four, with two aloneSinks down to death, oppress\u2019d with melancholy;Until life\u2019s composition be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}