{"id":186,"date":"2012-04-03T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-07-20T01:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:19:42","slug":"grammar-is-our-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/04\/03\/grammar-is-our-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar is our Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grammar is the cradle of all philosophy, and in a manner of speaking, the first nurse of the whole study of letters.\u00a0 It takes all of us as tender babes, newly born from nature&#8217;s bosom.\u00a0 It nurses us in our infancy, and guides our ever forward step in philosophy.\u00a0 With motherly care, it fosters and protects the philosopher from the start to the finish [of his pursuits].&#8221; John of Salisbury, <em>Metalogicon<\/em>, Book 1, Chap. 13, trans. Daniel D. McGarry (Philadelphia, 2009), p. 37.<\/p>\n<p>What a beautiful description of the significance of grammar as the foundation of the study of the liberal arts!\u00a0 John of Salisbury imagines grammar as the mother who nurses us as young students of the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grammar is the cradle of all philosophy, and in a manner of speaking, the first nurse of the whole study of letters.\u00a0 It takes all of us as tender babes, newly born from nature&#8217;s bosom.\u00a0 It nurses us in our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/04\/03\/grammar-is-our-mother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,5,8,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-john-of-salisbury","category-learning","category-medieval","category-teaching","category-trivium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}