{"id":77,"date":"2018-03-16T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2018-11-27T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:42:06","slug":"library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/","title":{"rendered":"Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\"><strong>\u201c\u2026[B]ooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon\u2019s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.\u2026Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px; text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 John Milton, <em>Areopagitica<\/em> (1644)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/primary-sources\/\">Primary Sources<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/milton-and-paradise-lost\/\">Milton and <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/miltonic-romanticism\/\">Miltonic Romanticism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/illustrators-of-milton\/\">Illustrators of Milton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/paradise-lost-in-popular-culture\/\"><em>Paradise Lost<\/em> in Popular Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026[B]ooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}