{"id":1068,"date":"2014-10-20T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2014-10-20T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:06:05","slug":"samuel-taylor-coleridge-on-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1068\/quotes\/samuel-taylor-coleridge-on-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Readers may be divided into four classes: <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers may be divided into four classes: Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1068\/quotes\/samuel-taylor-coleridge-on-readers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-on-reading","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}