{"id":6951,"date":"2017-05-08T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T15:03:40","slug":"love-goes-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":"LOVE GOES OVERBOARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our youngest son, Chris, recently finished his honors thesis in classics.\u00a0 It is quite technical (yes, I&#8217;ve &#8220;read&#8221; it) and about 100 pages long.\u00a0 That length is pretty typical.\u00a0 Now consider an undergraduate doing this for his thesis on Shakespeare:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In his senior year at Princeton in 1954, Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, wrote a thesis that was nearly six hundred pages long&#8230;Dealing with &#8220;royal themes&#8211;the characterization of moral ideas on the stage,&#8221; the thesis was for Seltzer a &#8220;kind of catharsis,&#8221; and he now looks back with Joycean delight at the comment of his roommate who suggested that &#8220;I put the thing on casters.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who or what do you love enough to go overboard?\u00a0 Rather, take a look at the people and things you tend to go overboard with and you will discover your true loves!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our youngest son, Chris, recently finished his honors thesis in classics.\u00a0 It is quite technical (yes, I&#8217;ve &#8220;read&#8221; it) and about 100 pages long.\u00a0 That length is pretty typical.\u00a0 Now consider an undergraduate doing this for his thesis on Shakespeare: In his senior year at Princeton in 1954, Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English, wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,69,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learningeducation","category-love","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}