{"id":474,"date":"2018-02-15T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-02-15T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T01:08:15","slug":"miltons-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Milton&#8217;s Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one studies literature, one can learn many lessons that can be applied to daily life. They&#8217;re many lessons to be found in Milton&#8217;s 1667 poem, Paradise Lost. At its heart, this poem is about dealing with consequences and learning how to accept life.  Milton says that &#8220;The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and a Hell of Heaven.&#8221;   I think that this quote illustrates the fact that often in life, circumstances are beyond our control and all we can do is change how we think about them. A positive attitude is important. No matter how bad you think life is, things can always be worse. With the wrong attitude, things will be made worse.  Attitude is important. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one studies literature, one can learn many lessons that can be applied to daily life. They&#8217;re many lessons to be found in Milton&#8217;s 1667 poem, Paradise Lost. At its heart, this poem is about dealing with consequences and learning how to accept life. Milton says that &#8220;The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and a Hell of Heaven.&#8221; I think that this quote illustrates the fact that often in life, circumstances are beyond our control and all we can do is change how we think about them. A positive attitude is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}