{"id":4801,"date":"2005-09-19T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2011-05-14T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T22:01:53","slug":"miss-mary-bennet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4801","title":{"rendered":"Miss Mary Bennet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young lady of deep reflection am I.<br \/>\nI make extracts of homilies, pound my scales,<br \/>\nwhile Lizzy and Jane, hard at work, catch the eye<br \/>\nof gallant lads with lots of land. To such males<br \/>\nof fortune, we trade my sisters&#8217; pretty bodies.<br \/>\n<em>My <\/em>goods weren&#8217;t good enough for my own cousin,<br \/>\nthough I&#8217;d have picked him over those London dandies.<br \/>\nTo me, living with just one idiot doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nsound so bad. He would never think to explore<br \/>\nwhat I keep <em>inside <\/em>books bound as Fordyce&#8217;s <em>Sermons<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To Young Ladies<\/em>, or, by Miss Hannah More,<br \/>\n<em>Strictures on the Modern System of Young Women&#8217;s<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Education<\/em>. Open those tomes from which I cite<br \/>\nmy platitudes, and you&#8217;ll find extracts, all right&#8211;<br \/>\nof Malthus, Blake, the <em>Philosophy of Right<\/em>.<br \/>\nI know just for what those wild Frenchmen fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young lady of deep reflection am I. I make extracts of homilies, pound my scales, while Lizzy and Jane, hard at work, catch the eye of gallant lads with lots of land. To such males of fortune, we trade my sisters&#8217; pretty bodies. My goods weren&#8217;t good enough for my own cousin, though I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}