{"id":158,"date":"2012-12-10T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2012-12-10T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T18:28:02","slug":"chiasmus-seen-on-the-streets-of-hampstead-garden-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/10\/chiasmus-seen-on-the-streets-of-hampstead-garden-suburb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiasmus seen on the streets of Hampstead Garden Suburb!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some while ago I wrote a series of posts on the subject of ancient middle eastern poetry (for example http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/2012\/07\/24\/%E2%80%98in-a-milk-and-honeyed-land%E2%80%99-and-ancient-poetry-2\/<\/a>). One of the topics I covered was chiasmus<\/em>, a literary device where parts of a phrase or pair of lines of poetry are crossed over. A good example from the biblical book of Joshua is:<\/p>\n

     Then still the Sun
\n and Moon was stopped<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, at the time I commented that this is only rarely seen these days. Well, the other day I was walking in Hampstead Garden Suburb (in North London) when I saw a courier van making a delivery. Imagine my delight when I saw that the slogan on the driver’s cab was “Delivering the promise that others promise to deliver”<\/em>!<\/p>\n

How cool was that? It certainly made me look twice, and if I ever had need for courier services – which admittedly is unlikely just now – I’d look them up. Now, that part of London has a large Jewish community, and good representation of other middle eastern groups as well. So I did wonder if this was a bit of long-standing cultural identity being expressed in a commercial slogan. Whatever the case, it was great to see chiasmus alive and well in the year 2012!<\/p>\n

To track down examples of chiasmus in In a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/em>, why not check out http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/WhereToBuy.aspx<\/a> and get your very own copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some while ago I wrote a series of posts on the subject of ancient middle eastern poetry (for example http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/2012\/07\/24\/%E2%80%98in-a-milk-and-honeyed-land%E2%80%99-and-ancient-poetry-2\/). One of the topics I covered was chiasmus, a literary device where parts of a phrase or pair of lines of poetry are crossed over. A good example from the biblical book of Joshua is: … Continue reading Chiasmus seen on the streets of Hampstead Garden Suburb!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-copies","category-poetry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}