{"id":394,"date":"2010-11-19T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T20:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=394"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:01:40","slug":"analects-of-the-core-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/19\/analects-of-the-core-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Milton on perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The mind is its own place, and in itself<br \/>\nCan make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miltons-Grand-Style-Christopher-Ricks\/dp\/0198120907\"><em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/a> by John Milton, Book I, ll. 254-5. Today&#8217;s analect was suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS\/SMG &#8217;12), who writes: &#8220;The Core reminds us that perception is our most powerful tool, endowing each of us with the ability to make the best of\u00a0 our surroundings &#8212; or the worst of them.&#8221; Students in CC201 will be attending a lecture next Tuesday by our resident expert on Milton, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Ricks\">Prof. Christopher Ricks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. &#8212; from Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book I, ll. 254-5. Today&#8217;s analect was suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS\/SMG &#8217;12), who writes: &#8220;The Core reminds us that perception is our most powerful tool, endowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692,3915,3712,3914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}