{"id":61942,"date":"2019-07-24T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=61942"},"modified":"2019-07-23T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T21:14:10","slug":"sweet-uses-of-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/sweet-uses-of-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Sweet uses of adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/As-You-Like-It.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/As-You-Like-It.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/As-You-Like-It-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/As-You-Like-It-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/As-You-Like-It-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Sweet are the uses of adversity,<\/p><p>Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,<\/p><p>Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;<\/p><p>And this our life, exempt from public haunt,<\/p><p>Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,<\/p><p>Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.<\/p><cite>William Shakespeare,  <em>As You Like It Act 2, scene 1, 12\u201317 <\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re not quite sure what this means, you might like to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enotes.com\/shakespeare-quotes\/sweet-uses-adversity\">this commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. William Shakespeare, As You Like It Act 2, scene 1, 12\u201317 If you&#8217;re not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[5373,5400,5401],"class_list":["post-61942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-adversity","tag-as-you-like-it","tag-william-shakespeare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72356,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942\/revisions\/72356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}