{"id":280,"date":"2014-06-18T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=280"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:56:40","slug":"mad-judy","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/mad-judy\/","title":{"raw":"Mad Judy","rendered":"Mad Judy"},"content":{"raw":"When the hamlet hailed a birth\r\nJudy used to cry:\r\nWhen she heard our christening mirth\r\nShe would kneel and sigh.\r\nShe was crazed, we knew, and we\r\nHumoured her infirmity.\r\n\r\nWhen the daughters and the sons\r\nGathered them to wed,\r\nAnd we like-intending ones\r\nDanced till dawn was red,\r\nShe would rock and mutter, \"More\r\nComers to this stony shore!\"\r\n\r\nWhen old Headsman[footnote]Executioner.[\/footnote]\u00a0Death laid hands\r\nOn a babe or twain[footnote]Poetical form of \u201ctwo.\u201d[\/footnote],\r\nShe would feast, and by her brands[footnote]Burning pieces of wood.[\/footnote]\r\nSing her songs again.\r\nWhat she liked we let her do,\r\nJudy was insane, we knew.\r\n\r\n\u2014 1901","rendered":"<p>When the hamlet hailed a birth<br \/>\nJudy used to cry:<br \/>\nWhen she heard our christening mirth<br \/>\nShe would kneel and sigh.<br \/>\nShe was crazed, we knew, and we<br \/>\nHumoured her infirmity.<\/p>\n<p>When the daughters and the sons<br \/>\nGathered them to wed,<br \/>\nAnd we like-intending ones<br \/>\nDanced till dawn was red,<br \/>\nShe would rock and mutter, &#8220;More<br \/>\nComers to this stony shore!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When old Headsman<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Executioner.\" id=\"return-footnote-280-1\" href=\"#footnote-280-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Death laid hands<br \/>\nOn a babe or twain<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Poetical form of \u201ctwo.\u201d\" id=\"return-footnote-280-2\" href=\"#footnote-280-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a>,<br \/>\nShe would feast, and by her brands<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Burning pieces of wood.\" id=\"return-footnote-280-3\" href=\"#footnote-280-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\nSing her songs again.<br \/>\nWhat she liked we let her do,<br \/>\nJudy was insane, we knew.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1901<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-280-1\">Executioner. <a href=\"#return-footnote-280-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-280-2\">Poetical form of \u201ctwo.\u201d <a href=\"#return-footnote-280-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-280-3\">Burning pieces of wood. <a href=\"#return-footnote-280-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["thomas-hardy"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[53],"license":[78],"class_list":["post-280","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-thomas-hardy","license-public-domain"],"part":265,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/280\/revisions\/1340"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/265"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/280\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}