{"id":293,"date":"2007-11-29T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/of-beauty-and-duty\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T12:04:13","slug":"of-beauty-and-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/of-beauty-and-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Beauty and Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nTWO ladies to the summit of my mind\r\nHave clomb, to hold an argument of love.\r\nThe one has wisdom with her from above,\r\nFor every noblest virtue well designed:\r\nThe other, beauty's tempting power refined\r\nAnd the high charm of perfect grace approve:\r\nAnd I, as my sweet Master's will doth move,\r\nAt feet of both their favors am reclined.\r\nBeauty and Duty in my soul keep strife,\r\nAt question if the heart such course can take\r\nAnd 'twixt the two ladies hold its love complete.\r\nThe fount of gentle speech yields answer meet,\r\nThat Beauty may be loved for gladness sake,\r\nAnd Duty in the lofty ends of life.\r\n\r\n\r\n            by Dante Alighieri\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> decisions &#8230; decisions &#8230; decisions &#8230; why cant they ever be simple &#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO ladies to the summit of my mind Have clomb, to hold an argument of love. The one has wisdom with her from above, For every noblest virtue well designed: The other, beauty&#8217;s tempting power refined And the high charm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/29\/of-beauty-and-duty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[244,382,407],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-dante_alighieri","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}