{"id":15864,"date":"2021-10-12T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2021-10-12T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T02:48:08","slug":"you-must-be-common-afore-you-be-oncommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15864","title":{"rendered":"You Must Be Common afore You Be Oncommon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/an-encouragement-for-your-theological-journey-from-charles-dickens-great-expectations-2\/\">Ronni Kurtz describes the encouragement<\/a> he finds (along with Pip) in <em>Great Expectations<\/em>: Don&#8217;t long for a future time after you&#8217;ve studied and learned all the thing; be grateful for who you are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Well, Pip, be it so, or be it son\u2019t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommone one, I should hope! The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his \u2018ed, can\u2019t sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet\u2013Ah! And begun at A too, and worked his way to Z.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronni Kurtz describes the encouragement he finds (along with Pip) in Great Expectations: Don&#8217;t long for a future time after you&#8217;ve studied and learned all the thing; be grateful for who you are today. Well, Pip, be it so, or be it son\u2019t, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Must Be Common afore You Be Oncommon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[470,3892],"class_list":["post-15864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-religion","tag-charles-dickens","tag-great-expectations"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15865,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions\/15865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}