{"id":14,"date":"2005-09-07T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblogbeta\/2005\/09\/07\/with-friends-like-these\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T18:21:42","slug":"with-friends-like-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2005\/09\/07\/with-friends-like-these\/","title":{"rendered":"With friends like these&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a15\" name=\"a15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Boswell&#8217;s copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=04232374\"><em>The government of the tongue<\/em><\/a> has a note from him about its acquisition:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Presented to me by my worthy freind Bennet Langton, Esq. of Langton, as a book by which I might be much improved &#8230;. He gave me the book and hoped I would read that treatise, but said no more. I have expressed in words what I believe was his meaning. It was a delicate<br \/>\nadmonition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What would have been a less delicate admonition &#8212; a gag?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/hydeblog\/Admonition.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"569\" width=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Boswell&#8217;s copy of The government of the tongue has a note from him about its acquisition: &#8220;Presented to me by my worthy freind Bennet Langton, Esq. of Langton, as a book by which I might be much improved &#8230;. He gave me the book and hoped I would read that treatise, but said no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}