{"id":803,"date":"2007-07-30T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:54:14","slug":"patrick-henry-on-the-value-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Henry on the Value of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Henry one of the truly great men involved in the founding of the US and arguably the greatest orator of his day gave this encouragement regarding reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cultivate your mind by the perusal of those books which instruct while they amuse. History, geography, poetry, moral essays, biography, travels, sermons, and other well-written religious productions will not fail to enlarge your understanding, to render you a more agreeable companion, and to exalt your virtue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both the source and the content of this exhortation commend it to us and to our children.<\/p>\n<p>Quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGive-Me-Liberty-Uncompromising-Statesmanship%2Fdp%2F1581823231%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1185834241%26sr%3D1-11&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by David Vaughan, p. 140.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Henry one of the truly great men involved in the founding of the US and arguably the greatest orator of his day gave this encouragement regarding reading: &#8220;Cultivate your mind by the perusal of those books which instruct while they amuse. History, geography, poetry, moral essays, biography, travels, sermons, and other well-written religious productions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Patrick Henry on the Value of Reading&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[234,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}