{"id":193761,"date":"2025-07-17T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193761"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:12:10","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-isaac-watts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193761","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Isaac Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton, Hampshire, England&#8230;Isaac Watts 17 July 1674 \u2013 25 November 1748<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Watts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163669 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/220px-Isaac_Watts_from_NPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Learning to trust is one of life&#8217;s most difficult tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton, Hampshire, England&#8230;Isaac Watts 17 July 1674 \u2013 25 November 1748 &#8220;Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;Tis the voice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/220px-Isaac_Watts_from_NPG.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193762,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193761\/revisions\/193762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}