{"id":193,"date":"2005-07-24T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:29:50","slug":"monte-cristo-the-benefits-of-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-the-benefits-of-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Cristo: The Benefits of Adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Monte Cristo  tells his former love, Merc\u00e9d<\/span>\u00e8s, about her son: \u201cHe possesses a noble  heart, madame, . . . and he has acted rightly. . . . He will increase in  strength and honour by struggling with adversity, which he will convert  into prosperity. Leave him to build up the future for you, and I  venture to say, you will confide it to safe hands.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0679601996\/qid=1121566467\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">The Count of Monte Cristo<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> p. 1416)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monte Cristo tells his former love, Merc\u00e9d\u00e8s, about her son: \u201cHe possesses a noble heart, madame, . . . and he has acted rightly. . . . He will increase in strength and honour by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity. Leave him to build up the future for you, and I &#8230; <a title=\"Monte Cristo: The Benefits of Adversity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/monte-cristo-the-benefits-of-adversity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Monte Cristo: The Benefits of Adversity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}