{"id":15880,"date":"2021-10-14T21:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T01:21:56","slug":"keep-pilgrims-progress-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15880","title":{"rendered":"Keep Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress Humble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick Kurp notes that poet Charles Lamb wasn&#8217;t necessarily a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/i-did-it-my-own-self-to-gratify.html\">new, polished editions of <em>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/em><\/a>. At least, he said he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bunyan\u2019s book, for Lamb, is a model of Christian humility, not to be decked out in finery. Instead, Lamb would \u201c. . . reprint the old cuts in as homely but good a style as possible. The Vanity Fair, and the pilgrims there\u2014the silly soothness in his setting out countenance\u2014the Christian idiocy (in a good sense) of his admiration of the Shepherds on the Delectable Mountains . . .&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kurp notes that poet Charles Lamb wasn&#8217;t necessarily a fan of new, polished editions of Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress. At least, he said he wasn&#8217;t. Bunyan\u2019s book, for Lamb, is a model of Christian humility, not to be decked out in finery. Instead, Lamb would \u201c. . . reprint the old cuts in as homely but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress Humble<\/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":[2,14],"tags":[2213],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-religion","tag-pilgrims-progress"],"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\/15880","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=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}