{"id":390,"date":"2007-04-11T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-04-11T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:54:00","slug":"the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/04\/the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">THE <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/scanserver.ulib.org\/is\/scanserver\/saxe\/xml\/doc.scn?pg=139&#038;rp=http%3A%2F%2Fscanserver%2Eulib%2Eorg%2Fis%2Fscanserver%2FSearch%2Easp%3FgroupId%3Dsaxe%26bookId%3Dsaxe%26query%3Dnews&amp;auth=3cc5a86fa4815b323e\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">, indeed! \u2013 pray do you call it news<br \/>When shallow noddles publish shallow views?<br \/>Pray is it news that turnips should be bred<br \/>As large and hollow as the owner&#8217;s head?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" >News<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">, that a clerk should rob his master&#8217;s hoard,<br \/>Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" >News<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o&#8217;er,<br \/>Should tell the truths which they concealed before?<br \/>News, that a maniac, weary of his life,<br \/>Should end his sorrows with a rope or knife?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" >News<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> that a wife should violate the vows<br \/>That bind her, loveless, to a tyrant spouse?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:130%;\" >News<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">, that a daughter cheats paternal rule,<br \/>And weds a scoundrel to escape a fool? \u2013<br \/>The news indeed! \u2013 such matters are as old<br \/>As sin and folly, rust and must and mould!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Godfrey_Saxe\" target=\"_blank\">John Godfrey Saxe<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE News, indeed! \u2013 pray do you call it newsWhen shallow noddles publish shallow views?Pray is it news that turnips should be bredAs large and hollow as the owner&#8217;s head?News, that a clerk should rob his master&#8217;s hoard,Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?News, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o&#8217;er,Should tell the truths which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,81,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}