{"id":3073,"date":"2022-01-26T20:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2022-01-26T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:07:43","slug":"the-quality-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/shakespeare\/verses\/the-quality-of-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quality Of Mercy by William Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The quality of mercy is not strain&#8217;d.<br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:<br>It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.<br>&#8216;Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<br>The throned monarch better than his crown.<br>His scepter shows the force of temporal power,<br>The attribute to awe and majesty,<br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;<br>But mercy is above this sceptered sway;<br>It is enthroned in the heart of kings;<br>It is an attribute to God himself;<br>And earthly power doth then show likest God&#8217;s<br>When mercy seasons justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of mercy is not strain&#8217;d.It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest:It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.&#8216;Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown.His scepter shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}