{"id":1653,"date":"2011-05-05T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2011-11-05T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:50:18","slug":"embarking-on-a-course-of-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Embarking on a Course of Study:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarkingonacourseofstudy.com\/\" target=\"externalwindow\">From the blog<\/a>: \u201cA writer, reader, and Austen lover spends a year (or more) embarking on a course of study similar to that perhaps undertaken by Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, without the benefit of Colonel Brandon\u2019s library and with room for diversions, digressions, and (hopefully) fun fieldwork.\u201d Of particular recent interest are blogger Chris Stewart\u2019s visits to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarkingonacourseofstudy.com\/2011\/08\/jane-austen-pilgrimage-part-i-her-writing-desk-and-portrait.html\" target=\"externalwindow\">British Library<\/a> to see Jane Austen\u2019s writing desk (which I failed to do) and Cassandra\u2019s painting at the National Portrait Gallery and her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarkingonacourseofstudy.com\/2011\/11\/jane-austen-pilgrimage-part-ii-winchester-cathedral-and-college-street.html\" target=\"externalwindow\">trip to Winchester<\/a> where Jane died.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope her course of study is more than a year; I suspect it\u2019s a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>PS I, of course, learned about Ms. Stewart\u2019s blog through <a href=\"http:\/\/janeaustensworld.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/20\/jane-austen-pilgrimage-part-i\/\" target=\"externalwindow\">Vic Sanborn\u2019s Jane Austen\u2019s World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the blog: \u201cA writer, reader, and Austen lover spends a year (or more) embarking on a course of study similar to that perhaps undertaken by Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, without the benefit of Colonel Brandon\u2019s library and with room for diversions, digressions, and (hopefully) fun fieldwork.\u201d Of particular &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austen-blogs","category-jane-austen","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32UJ9-qF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myparticularfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}