{"id":1116,"date":"2009-02-08T21:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T21:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2009-02-20T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T13:17:03","slug":"hamlet-act-1-scene-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And these few precepts in thy memory<br \/>\nLook thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,<br \/>\nNor any unproportion&#8217;d thought his act.<br \/>\nBe thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.<br \/>\nThose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<br \/>\nGrapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;<br \/>\nBut do not dull thy palm with entertainment<br \/>\nOf each new-hatch&#8217;d, unfledg&#8217;d comrade. Beware<br \/>\nOf entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,<br \/>\nBear&#8217;t that the opposed may beware of thee.<br \/>\nGive every man thine ear, but few thy voice:<br \/>\nTake each man&#8217;s censure, but reserve thy judgment.<br \/>\nCostly thy habit as thy purse can buy,<br \/>\nBut not express&#8217;d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:<br \/>\nFor the apparel oft proclaims the man;<br \/>\nAnd they in France of the best rank and station<br \/>\nAre most select and generous chief in that.<br \/>\nNeither a borrower nor a lender be:<br \/>\nFor loan oft loses both itself and friend;<br \/>\nAnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.<br \/>\nThis above all,&#8211;to thine own self be true;<br \/>\nAnd it must follow, as the night the day,<br \/>\nThou canst not then be false to any man.<br \/>\nFarewell: my blessing season this in thee!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite>Hamlet, Act 1, Scene III. William Shakespeare<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion&#8217;d thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=1116\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}