{"id":493,"date":"2010-12-09T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=493"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:00:28","slug":"analects-of-the-core-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/09\/analects-of-the-core-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Milton on charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum<br \/>\nOf Wisdom; hope no higher, though all the Stars<br \/>\nThou knew\u2019st by name, and all th\u2019 ethereal Powers,<br \/>\nAll secrets of the deep, all Nature\u2019s works,<br \/>\nOr works of God in Heav\u2019n, Air, Earth, or Sea,<br \/>\nAnd all riches of this World enjoy\u2019dst,<br \/>\nAnd all the rule, one Empire: only add<br \/>\nDeeds to thy knowledge answerable, add Faith,<br \/>\nAdd Virtue, Patience, Temperance, add Love,<br \/>\nBy name to come called Charity, the soul<br \/>\nOf all the rest: then wilt though not be loth<br \/>\nTo leave this Paradise, but shalt possess<br \/>\nA paradise within thee, happier far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Archangel Michael, Milton\u2019s <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of Wisdom; hope no higher, though all the Stars Thou knew\u2019st by name, and all th\u2019 ethereal Powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature\u2019s works, Or works of God in Heav\u2019n, Air, Earth, or Sea, And all riches of this World enjoy\u2019dst, And all the rule, [&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":[3692,3915,3712,4376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}