{"id":8319,"date":"2009-12-11T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:29:00","slug":"its-not-that-far-from-texas-to-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/its-not-that-far-from-texas-to-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not That Far From Texas to Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8320\" title=\"wind\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wind-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"wind\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wind-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wind-97x150.jpg 97w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wind.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have seen some complaints about the title of the Howard collection from Penguin Modern Classics, <em>Heroes in the Wind.<br \/>\n<\/em>It doesn&#8217;t seem out of place to me.\u00a0 Evoking Kansas&#8217; &#8220;Dust in the Wind&#8221; as it may, still, that&#8217;s a very Howardian sentiment.<br \/>\nSee, for instance &#8220;The Wheel of Destiny&#8221; on page 410 of <em>The Collected Poetry<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Across the great world&#8217;s silent girth<br \/>\nThe gras-grown cities rot and rust:<br \/>\nStill are the rulers of the earth &#8212;<br \/>\nMen and their worth sink back to dust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think Howard would agree with Kansas that all we are is dust in the wind. The book itself is an odd mix of classic Howard and little-known stories, but not a bad introduction to a new readership. It gets no points from me for the cover, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen some complaints about the title of the Howard collection from Penguin Modern Classics, Heroes in the Wind. It doesn&#8217;t seem out of place to me.\u00a0 Evoking Kansas&#8217; &#8220;Dust in the Wind&#8221; as it may, still, that&#8217;s a very Howardian sentiment. See, for instance &#8220;The Wheel of Destiny&#8221; on page 410 of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-literary-reputation","category-motifs-in-rehs-work","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}