{"id":4138,"date":"2022-03-04T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2022-03-04T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:38:52","slug":"sonnet-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/shakespeare\/sonnets\/sonnet-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music to hear, why hear&#8217;st thou music sadly?<br>Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.<br>Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,<br>Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?<br>If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,<br>By unions married, do offend thine ear,<br>They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds<br>In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.<br>Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,<br>Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,<br>Resembling sire and child and happy mother<br>Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sings this to thee: &#8216;thou single wilt prove none.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music to hear, why hear&#8217;st thou music sadly?Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,By unions married, do offend thine ear,They do but sweetly chide thee, who confoundsIn singleness the parts that thou shouldst [&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":[39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}