{"id":897,"date":"2004-05-20T13:48:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:20:32","slug":"lm-montgomery-on-ben-hur-by-lew-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"LM Montgomery on \u201cBen Hur\u201d by Lew Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a certain couplet in Ben Hur which always makes me incredibly <u>homesick<\/u>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No more does the Nile in the moonlight calm<br \/>\nMoan past the Memphian shore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gods!  There comes the ache!  I see that moonlit shore &#8230; I yearn for it &#8212; I could weep with very longing to see it <u>again<\/u>.  I <u>must <\/u>have seen it once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1617203408&#038;asins=1617203408&#038;linkId=4JXDIGUULCA3JUUN&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a certain couplet in Ben Hur which always makes me incredibly homesick. No more does the Nile in the moonlight calm Moan past the Memphian shore. Gods! There comes the ache! I see that moonlit shore &#8230; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[183,2418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101410,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/101410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}