{"id":1262,"date":"2004-08-22T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2017-09-15T07:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:06:49","slug":"1262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/1262\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of a Classical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when I get an allusion made by some author, whether it&#8217;s Robert B. Parker or <a href=\"http:\/\/varifrank.typepad.com\/varifrank\/2004\/08\/whats_the_deal_.html\" target=\"_new\">Varifrank<\/a>, who quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It&#8217;s not like John Kerry hasn&#8217;t tried to run for President before, and got nowhere, not even out of the early democrat primaries. He&#8217;s been <i> &#8220;unwept, unhonoured, and unsung&#8221;<\/i> for some time, and he&#8217;s a not exactly a stunning member of the Senate, he barely makes any kind of presence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s Sir Walter Scott.  I can almost quote the complete couplet.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t tell my mother-in-law, the former English teacher whom I impressed at our first meeting by reciting &#8220;The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock&#8221;, that I know this particular quote because, in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0107048\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Groundhog Day<\/i><\/a>, Andie MacDowell&#8217;s character Rita recites it to Bill Murray&#8217;s character Phil Conners and she attributes it.  Knowning how I know what I know often spoils the illusion.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/017304.php\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when I get an allusion made by some author, whether it&#8217;s Robert B. Parker or Varifrank, who quotes: It&#8217;s not like John Kerry hasn&#8217;t tried to run for President before, and got nowhere, not even out of the early democrat primaries. He&#8217;s been &#8220;unwept, unhonoured, and unsung&#8221; for some time, and he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16888,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/16888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}