{"id":3525,"date":"2021-03-01T23:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T23:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T23:02:25","slug":"this-scepterd-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/3525","title":{"rendered":"This scepter&#8217;d isle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This royal throne of kings, this scepter&#8217;d isle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This other Eden, demi-paradise,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fortress built by Nature for herself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against infection and the hand of war,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happy breed of men, this little world,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This precious stone set in the silver sea,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which serves it in the office of a wall,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or as a moat defensive to a house,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against the envy of less happier lands,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakespeare,&nbsp; Richard II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This royal throne of kings, this scepter&#8217;d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/3525\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}