{"id":964,"date":"2021-05-03T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/?p=964"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T17:19:28","slug":"964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/2021\/05\/03\/964\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree of Knowledge &#8211; John Milton&#8217;s &#8216;Paradise Lost&#8217; (1667)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax is-repeated has-custom-content-position is-position-top-right is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-40 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-965 has-parallax is-repeated\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Paradise-Lost-I.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">I was at first as other beasts that graze<br>                                                                                                                       The trodden herb, of abject thoughts and low,<br>                                                                                                                       As was my food; nor aught but food discerned<br>Or sex, and apprehended nothing high:<br>Till, on a day roving the field, I chanced<br>A goodly tree far distant to behold<br>Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixed,<br>Ruddy and gold: I nearer drew to gaze;<br>When from the boughs a savoury odour blown,<br>Grateful to appetite, more pleased my sense<br>Than smell of sweetest fennel, or the teats<br>Of ewe or goat dropping with milk at even,<br>Unsucked of lamb or kid, that tend their play.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}