{"id":21482,"date":"2013-08-19T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=21482"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:42:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:42:02","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-poets-teacher-man-orientalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/08\/19\/a-midsummer-nights-dream-poets-teacher-man-orientalist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream &#8211; Poets, Teacher Man &#038; Orientalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i7Wl-zYsPYI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speak_Low\">Speak Low wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics by<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogden_Nash\"> Ogden Nash <\/a>(Aug 19 birthday) Music by Kurt Weil<br \/>\nThe opening line is a (slight mis)quotation from William Shakespeare&#8217;s Much Ado About Nothing (1600), where it is spoken by Don Pedro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/07\/20\/goodbye-teacher-man-rip-frank-mccourt\/\">Frank McCourt &#8211; the Teacher Man <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1frank-mccourt-collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1frank-mccourt-collage-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1frank-mccourt-collage\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1frank-mccourt-collage-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1frank-mccourt-collage.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(August 19, 1930 born in Brooklyn -Limerick childhood came later. ) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYour mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it\u2019s the one part of you the world can\u2019t interfere with.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Frank McCourt, &#8216;Tis <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/08\/18\/li-young-lee-station-g-santaolalla\/\">Li young Lee<\/a> <> <><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1LiYoungLee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1LiYoungLee-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1LiYoungLee\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1LiYoungLee-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1LiYoungLee.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPoet&#8217;s father was Mao&#8217;s physician. (See Station &#8211; a great video) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Waley\">Arthur Waley-the Orientalist <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/waley_arthur2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/waley_arthur2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"waley_arthur\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waley (Chinese: \u885b\u5229- 19 August 1889 ) was an English orientalist and sinologist. Translated Tao Te Ching. The I Ching..<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1JeanLouisT.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1JeanLouisT.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"1JeanLouisT\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1JeanLouisT.png 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1JeanLouisT-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alain Robbe Grillet anti-roman author (Aug 19 birthday) directed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vVUKGUZyeCI\">Trans Europe Express <\/a>(a stylish film &#8211; see on youtube) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>R.I.P <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/19\/books\/john-hollander-poet-known-for-his-range-dies-at-83.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=0\">John Hollander Poet <\/a> known for his range dies at 83 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Hollander, Poet at Ease With Intellectualism and Wit, Dies at 83<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHis mind was singularly capacious, filled with baseball statistics, detective novels, mathematical formulas, vintage wines, German hymns, you name it,\u201d Mr. McClatchy wrote. \u201cIt is said of a man like John Hollander that when he dies it is like the <strong>burning of the library at Alexandria.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speak Low wiki Lyrics by Ogden Nash (Aug 19 birthday) Music by Kurt Weil The opening line is a (slight mis)quotation from William Shakespeare&#8217;s Much Ado About Nothing (1600), where it is spoken by Don Pedro. Frank McCourt &#8211; the Teacher Man (August 19, 1930 born in Brooklyn -Limerick childhood came later. ) \u201cYour mind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/08\/19\/a-midsummer-nights-dream-poets-teacher-man-orientalist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream &#8211; Poets, Teacher Man &#038; Orientalist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humor","category-philosophypsychology","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}