{"id":15080,"date":"2024-03-10T22:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T02:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/?p=15080"},"modified":"2024-03-10T22:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T02:38:35","slug":"discussion-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/2024\/03\/10\/discussion-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the story <em>Oedipus the King, the people in the story went through a plague and tried to find a solution \u00a0. Like in lines 68-82\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pity you, children. You have come full of longing,<\/p>\n<p>but I have known the story before you told it only too well. I know you are all sick, yet there is not one of you, sick though you are,<\/p>\n<p>that is as sick as myself.<\/p>\n<p>Your several sorrows each have single scope and touch but one of you. My spirit groans for city and myself and you at once.<\/p>\n<p>You have not roused me like a man from sleep;<\/p>\n<p>know that I have given many tears to this, gone many ways wandering in thoughts, but as I thought I found only one remedy and that I took. I sent Menoeceus&#8217; son Creon, Jocasta&#8217;s brother, to Apollo,<\/p>\n<p>to his Pythian temple,*<\/p>\n<p>that he might learn there by what act or word I could save this city. This quote relates to Covid 19 and what was going on with the Americans because when Covid 19 started they quickly started looking for a solution to solve the problem for the sickness\/disease that were killing people off . It caused great panic and that\u2019s why guidelines had to be followed to prevent the spread .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the story Oedipus the King, the people in the story went through a plague and tried to find a solution \u00a0. Like in lines 68-82\u00a0 \u201cI pity you, children. You have come full of longing, but I have known the story before you told it only too well. I know you are all sick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-7-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15081,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions\/15081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2024-c-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}