{"id":23258,"date":"2013-11-27T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23258"},"modified":"2013-10-31T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:52:07","slug":"something-i-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/something-i-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Something I Didn&#8217;t Know Until Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/something-i-didnt-know\/stardust_promo_poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23262\" title=\"Stardust_promo_poster\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stardust_promo_poster-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stardust_promo_poster-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stardust_promo_poster-79x150.jpg 79w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Stardust_promo_poster.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; but which makes sense, when you think about the two together:<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <strong><em>Stardust<\/em><\/strong> was inspired by the early 17th century poet, John Donne&#8217;s, <strong><em>Song<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Goe and catche a falling starre,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;<\/span>Get with child a mandrake roote,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell me, where all past yeares are,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;<\/span>Or who cleft the Divels foot,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Teach me to heare Mermaides singing,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;<\/span>Or to keep off envies stinging,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>And finde<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>What winde<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Serves to advance an honest minde.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m trying to think of any other books or films that owe their inception to a poem &#8212; suggestions anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but which makes sense, when you think about the two together: Apparently Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Stardust was inspired by the early 17th century poet, John Donne&#8217;s, Song: &#8220;Goe and catche a falling starre, &#8230;Get with child a mandrake roote, Tell me, where all past yeares are, &#8230;Or who cleft the Divels foot, Teach me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23258"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23305,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}