{"id":32764,"date":"2016-07-15T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32764"},"modified":"2016-07-14T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:27:38","slug":"two-famous-quotes-plus-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/two-famous-quotes-plus-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Famous Quotes — Plus A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"starry<\/a>“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”<\/span>
\n<\/i><\/h4>\n

-Vincent van Gogh \"\"<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night”<\/strong> is probably one of his most well-known and publicly favoured paintings, and this quote goes with it perfectly.<\/p>\n

It also reminds me of another, possibly even more famous quote, this time from Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

To check out Siobhan Harvey’s ekphrastic poem that addresses the painting—and a great deal else—click on:<\/p>\n

Van Gogh In Aotearoa<\/a><\/h3>\n

Here’s to keeping on looking at the stars and dreaming dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” -Vincent van Gogh — Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is probably one of his most well-known and publicly favoured paintings, and this quote goes with it perfectly. It also reminds me of another, possibly even more famous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764","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=32764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32775,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions\/32775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}