{"id":389,"date":"2008-02-23T23:31:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T03:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/23\/the-message-of-macbeth\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T23:31:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T03:31:02","slug":"the-message-of-macbeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"The Message of Macbeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">No kidding, I thought.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So in <em>Macbeth,<\/em> when he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he want to express in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Baker looked at me for a long moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Then she went and sat back down at her desk.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That we are made for more than power,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said softly.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That we are made for more than our desires.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That pride combined with stubbornness can be disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 And that compared with love, malice is a small and petty thing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gary D. Schmidt, <em>The Wednesday Wars<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shakespeare did not write for your ease of reading,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. No kidding, I thought. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He wrote to express something about what it means to be a human being in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So in Macbeth, when he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","category-love","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}