{"id":11820,"date":"2011-09-10T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2011-09-10T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T21:55:38","slug":"jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/10\/jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And did those feet in ancient time.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Walk upon England's mountains green:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And was the holy Lamb of God,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>On Englands pleasant pastures seen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And did the Countenance Divine,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Shine forth upon our clouded hills?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And was Jerusalem builded here,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Among these dark Satanic Mills?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bring me my Bow of burning gold;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bring me my Arrows of desire:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bring me my Chariot of fire!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will not cease from Mental Fight,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till we have built Jerusalem,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In Englands green &amp; pleasant Land<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The left need to embrace those last two verses in particular.<\/p>\n<p>No one else is going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>And yes - I know it says England - and I know it will challenge some with its allusions to faith - and I think more broadly on both - but this is the night of the Last Night of the Proms - and we have to embrace the paradox of the absurdity and yet sheer joy of that\u00a0occasion\u00a0and not be\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0about either - and indeed claim them as our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England&#8217;s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/10\/jerusalem\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}