{"id":2066,"date":"2011-09-11T04:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2011-09-11T04:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:42:07","slug":"september-11-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2066","title":{"rendered":"September 11, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Quality of Mercy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The quality of mercy is not strained.<br \/>\nIt droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br \/>\nUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest:<br \/>\nIt blesseth him that gives and him that takes.<br \/>\nTis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<br \/>\nThe throned monarch better than his crown.<br \/>\nHis scepter shows the force of temporal power,<br \/>\nThe attribute to awe and majesty,<br \/>\nWherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.<br \/>\nBut mercy is above this sceptered sway;<br \/>\nIt is enthroned in the hearts of kings;<br \/>\nIt is an attribute of God himself;<br \/>\nAnd earthly power doth then show like God&#8217;s<br \/>\nWhen mercy seasons justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>William Shakespeare &#8211; 1600<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>, first performed in 1596 and published in 1600, when Portia speaks to Shylock in Act IV, Scene I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quality of Mercy The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the force &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 11, 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-international-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}