{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-10T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-01-08T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:05:32","slug":"there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-i\/","title":{"rendered":"There, but for the grace of God, go I&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bodytext\">I&#8217;ve looked for the source on this for years.  Finally, I found <a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/bulletin_board\/5\/messages\/351.html\" target=\"_blank\">this reference<\/a> and have posted it below. ~Steve <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"bodytext\">&#8220;On seeing several criminals being led to the scaffold in the 16th century, English Protestant martyr John Bradford remarked, <em>&#8216;There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.&#8217; <\/em>His words, without his name, are still very common ones today for expressing one&#8217;s blessings compared to the fate of another. Bradford was later burned at the stake as a heretic.&#8221; From the &#8220;Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins&#8221; by Robert Hendrickson, Facts on File, New York, 1997.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve looked for the source on this for years. Finally, I found this reference and have posted it below. ~Steve &#8220;On seeing several criminals being led to the scaffold in the 16th century, English Protestant martyr John Bradford remarked, &#8216;There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/there-but-for-the-grace-of-god-go-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[604,275,31],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-grace","tag-john-bradford","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}