{"id":7726,"date":"2010-08-15T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:02:03","slug":"manvotional-opportunity-by-edward-rowland-sill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-opportunity-by-edward-rowland-sill\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11815 size-full\" title=\"sword\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2010\/08\/sword1.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage painting of men fighting in battle on horseback.\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sword1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sword1-320x218.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Opportunity<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>By Edward Rowland Sill<\/p>\n<p>This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:-<br \/>\nThere spread a cloud of dust along a plain;<br \/>\nAnd underneath the cloud, or in it, raged<br \/>\nA furious battle, and men yelled, and swords<br \/>\nShocked upon swords and shields. A prince&#8217;s banner<br \/>\nWavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.<br \/>\nA craven hung along the battle&#8217;s edge,<br \/>\nAnd thought, &#8220;Had I a sword of keener steel-<br \/>\nThat blue blade that the king&#8217;s son bears,-but this<br \/>\nBlunt thing-!&#8221; he snapt and flung it from his hand,<br \/>\nAnd lowering crept away and left the field.<br \/>\nThen came the king&#8217;s son, wounded, sore bestead,<br \/>\nAnd weaponless, and saw the broken sword,<br \/>\nHilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand,<br \/>\nAnd ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout<br \/>\nLifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,<br \/>\nAnd saved a great cause that heroic day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity By Edward Rowland Sill This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:- There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince&#8217;s banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sword1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sword1-320x218.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128612,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions\/128612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}