{"id":15861,"date":"2016-08-18T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/choaterufus\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:34:45","slug":"choaterufus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/choaterufus\/","title":{"rendered":"CHOATE,\nRUFUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (October 1, 1799\u2013July 13, 1859), was a lawyer, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831\u201334, and U.S. Senator, 1841\u201345. Before he was six years old, he had become so familiar with John Bunyan\u2019s <i>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/i> as to repeat from memory large portions of it. Famous for his definition of a lawyer\u2019s vacation being \u201cthe space between a question to a witness and his answer,\u201d Rufus Choate was extremely fond of the Bible.&#65279;2133&#65279; He declared:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.&#65279;2134&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 1, 1799\u2013July 13, 1859), was a lawyer, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831\u201334, and U.S. Senator, 1841\u201345. Before he was six years old, he had become so familiar with John Bunyan\u2019s Pilgrim\u2019s Progress as to repeat from memory large portions of it. Famous for his definition of a lawyer\u2019s vacation being \u201cthe space between a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/choaterufus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHOATE,<br \/>\nRUFUS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}