{"id":414,"date":"2008-11-01T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:22:38","slug":"milton-on-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Milton on Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However many books<br \/>\nWise men have said are wearisom; who reads<br \/>\nIncessantly, and to his reading brings not<br \/>\nA spirit and judgment equal or superior,<br \/>\n(And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek)<br \/>\nUncertain and unsettled still remains,<br \/>\nDeep verst in books and shallow in himself,<br \/>\nCrude or intoxicate, collecting toys,<br \/>\nAnd trifles for choice matters, worth a spunge;<br \/>\nAs Childern gathering pibles on the shore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">(<em>Paradise Regain&#8217;d<\/em>, 4.322-30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However many books Wise men have said are wearisom; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep verst in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}