{"id":8019,"date":"2021-01-11T04:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:51:36","slug":"aubrey-maturin-read-along-update-master-and-commander-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/aubrey-maturin-read-along-update-master-and-commander-chapter-2","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey\/Maturin Read-along Update: Master and Commander Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8020\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HMS_Speedy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HMS_Speedy.jpg 736w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HMS_Speedy-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HMS_Speedy-500x349.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to week two of the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/announcing-the-aubrey-maturin-chapter-a-week-4-year-read-along-odyssey\">Aubrey\/Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Odyssey<\/a>. This post gives you an opportunity to share your thoughts, quotes, and questions about chapter two of\u00a0<em>Master and Commander.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This was Jack\u2019s first direct, fully responsible acquaintance with book-keeping, and he did not much relish it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote reminded me of when I first became principal and had to start working on the school budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8021 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minorca-500x466.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minorca-500x466.png 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minorca-300x280.png 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minorca-768x716.png 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minorca.png 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Where are Jack and Stephen this week?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack and Stephen are still in Port Mahon as Jack prepares the <em>Sophie<\/em> for her task and Stephen learns about being a naval surgeon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Term of the Week: 12-pounder<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 12-pounder long gun was an intermediary calibre piece of artillery mounted on warships of the Age of sail. They were used as main guns on the most typical frigates of the early 18th century, on the second deck of fourth-rate ships of the line, and on the upper decks or castles of 80-gun and 120-gun ships of the line.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/12-pounder_long_gun\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Your Turn<\/strong><br \/>\nLeave a comment with an insight, question, or favorite line from the past week.\u00a0<strong>Please refrain from any spoilers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to week two of the \u00a0Aubrey\/Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-along Odyssey. This post gives you an opportunity to share your thoughts, quotes, and questions about chapter two of\u00a0Master and Commander. Quote of the Week &#8220;This was Jack\u2019s first direct, fully responsible acquaintance with book-keeping, and he did not much relish it.&#8221; This quote reminded me of when I first became principal and had to start working on the school budget. Where are Jack and Stephen this week? Jack and Stephen are still in Port Mahon as Jack&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8020,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Aubrey\/Maturin Read-along Update: Master and Commander Chapter 2 #aubreymaturinreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1142,124],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-aubrey-maturin-readalong","tag-aubreymaturin-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/HMS_Speedy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-25l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8025,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions\/8025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}