{"id":1758,"date":"2014-10-14T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:27:18","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words and Expressions &#8211; The Pen is Mightier than the Sword."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1760\" alt=\"the pen is mightier than the sword\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-445x296.jpg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The pen is mightier than the sword.\u00a0<\/i>What does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>Trying to convince people with ideas and words is more effective than trying to force people to do what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Where does it come from?<\/p>\n<p>It was created by the English author, Edward Bulwer-Lytton,\u00a0in 1839, for his play <em>Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The play was about\u00a0Cardinal Richelieu. His\u00a0line&#8217;s in Act II, scene II, was more fully:<sup id=\"cite_ref-bulwer_3-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword#cite_note-bulwer-3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True, This! \u2014<br \/>\nBeneath the rule of men entirely great<br \/>\n<em>The pen is mightier than the sword.<\/em> Behold<br \/>\nThe arch-enchanters wand! \u2014 itself is nothing! \u2014<br \/>\nBut taking sorcery from the master-hand<br \/>\nTo paralyse the C\u00e6sars, and to strike<br \/>\nThe loud earth breathless! \u2014 Take away the sword \u2014<br \/>\nStates can be saved without it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pen is mightier than the sword.\u00a0What does it mean? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[491,182,307,1658,489,492,490],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-edward-bulwer-lytton","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-phrase","tag-october-2014","tag-pen-is-mightier","tag-richelieu-or-the-conspiracy","tag-words","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}