{"id":1256,"date":"2008-12-09T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:11:58","slug":"happy-birthday-john-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, John Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

John Milton<\/a>, republican, at least implicitly an advocate of regicide, unitarian, fierce opponent of censorship, proponent of divorce (and apparently was comfortable with polygamy, at least in theory), and, of course, poet, was born on this day four hundred years ago.<\/p>\n

Should be noticed when such a one does\u2026<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7107170864448948860?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Milton, republican, at least implicitly an advocate of regicide, unitarian, fierce opponent of censorship, proponent of divorce (and apparently was comfortable with polygamy, at least in theory), and, of course, poet, was born on this day four hundred years ago. Such as he rarely pass this way. Should be noticed when such a one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Happy Birthday, John Milton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Milton, republican, at least implicitly an advocate of regicide, unitarian, fierce opponent of censorship, proponent of divorce (and apparently was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday, John Milton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Milton, republican, at least implicitly an advocate of regicide, unitarian, fierce opponent of censorship, proponent of divorce (and apparently was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-12-09T17:54:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:11:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7107170864448948860?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html\",\"name\":\"Happy Birthday, John Milton\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-12-09T17:54:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:11:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"John Milton, republican, at least implicitly an advocate of regicide, unitarian, fierce opponent of censorship, proponent of divorce (and apparently was\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/happy-birthday-john-milton.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Happy Birthday, John Milton\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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