{"id":488,"date":"2021-06-22T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=488"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:47:04","slug":"french-leave","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/french-leave\/","title":{"raw":"French Leave","rendered":"French Leave"},"content":{"raw":"No servile little fear shall daunt my will\r\nThis morning. I have courage steeled to say\r\nI will be lazy, conqueringly still,\r\nI will not lose the hours in toil this day.\r\nThe roaring world without, careless of souls,\r\nShall leave me to my placid dream of rest,\r\nMy four walls shield me from its shouting ghouls,\r\nAnd all its hates have fled my quiet breast.\r\nAnd I will loll here resting, wide awake,\r\nDead to the world of work, the world of love,\r\nI laze contented just for dreaming\u2019s sake\r\nWith not the slightest urge to think or move.\r\nHow tired unto death, how tired I was!\r\nNow for a day I put my burdens by,\r\nAnd like a child amidst the meadow grass\r\nUnder the southern sun, I languid lie\r\nAnd feel the bed about me kindly deep,\r\nMy strength ooze gently from my hollow bones,\r\nMy worried brain drift aimlessly to sleep,\r\nLike softening to a song of tuneful tones.","rendered":"<p>No servile little fear shall daunt my will<br \/>\nThis morning. I have courage steeled to say<br \/>\nI will be lazy, conqueringly still,<br \/>\nI will not lose the hours in toil this day.<br \/>\nThe roaring world without, careless of souls,<br \/>\nShall leave me to my placid dream of rest,<br \/>\nMy four walls shield me from its shouting ghouls,<br \/>\nAnd all its hates have fled my quiet breast.<br \/>\nAnd I will loll here resting, wide awake,<br \/>\nDead to the world of work, the world of love,<br \/>\nI laze contented just for dreaming\u2019s sake<br \/>\nWith not the slightest urge to think or move.<br \/>\nHow tired unto death, how tired I was!<br \/>\nNow for a day I put my burdens by,<br \/>\nAnd like a child amidst the meadow grass<br \/>\nUnder the southern sun, I languid lie<br \/>\nAnd feel the bed about me kindly deep,<br \/>\nMy strength ooze gently from my hollow bones,<br \/>\nMy worried brain drift aimlessly to sleep,<br \/>\nLike softening to a song of tuneful tones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":70,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-488","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":346,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/346"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}