{"id":1428,"date":"2008-07-26T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2010-07-31T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T02:38:15","slug":"where-is-this-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Where is this from&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, all you English professors and poetry fans, I&#8217;m looking for a source for the following poem by Langston Hughes &#8212; when and where was it first published?<\/p>\n<p><center>The ivory gods,<br \/>\nAnd the ebony gods,<br \/>\nAnd the gods of diamond and jade,<br \/>\nSit silently on their temple shelves<br \/>\nWhile the people<br \/>\nAre afraid.<br \/>\nYet the ivory gods,<br \/>\nAnd the ebony gods,<br \/>\nAnd the gods of diamond-jade,<br \/>\nAre only silly puppet gods<br \/>\nThat the people themselves<br \/>\nHave made.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I found the poem <a href=\"http:\/\/oldpoetry.com\/opoem\/79793-Langston-Hughes-Gods\">here<\/a>, but they provide no bibliographic information. It&#8217;s not in my copy of <em ?Selected Powems: Langston Hughes<\/em>. Any ideas where it came from?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, all you English professors and poetry fans, I&#8217;m looking for a source for the following poem by Langston Hughes &#8212; when and where was it first published? The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelves While the people Are afraid. Yet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[538],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-langston-hughes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}