{"id":42968,"date":"2025-04-07T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42968"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:18:02","slug":"an-idea-from-the-great-ray-bradbury-1920-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/an-idea-from-the-great-ray-bradbury-1920-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea from (the Great) Ray Bradbury, 1920 &#8211; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Ray Bradbury fan. No, not just <strong><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; though it&#8217;s a brilliant book and also (sadly) very topical right now &#8212; but also short story collections like <em><strong>The Golden Apples of the Sun<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42970\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fahrenheit-451-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fahrenheit-451-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fahrenheit-451-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fahrenheit-451.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read it a long time ago, but still think about several of the stories, so I guess that counts as &#8220;influential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42971\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Golden-Apples-of-the-Sun.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I was very interested to spot this Bradbury quote on reading, oot thar in interwebs land. It was featured by a T&#8217;verse inhabitant, Boze The Library Owl, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SketchesbyBoze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SketchesByBoze<\/a>. (You all get the Dickens reference, right? \ud83d\ude00 )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-9pa8cd\" draggable=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Gm7EndIbYAI1oYI?format=png&amp;name=small\" alt=\"\u201cI\u2019ll give you a program to follow every night. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed, read one short story. That\u2019ll take you ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry \u2026 Read the great poets, go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. One poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time \u2026 I want you to read essays in every field. Every night, before you go to bed, you\u2019re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay\u2014at the end of a thousand nights, you\u2019ll be full of stuff, won\u2019t you?\u201d \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waddya reckon? Are you game? It&#8217;s definitely an interesting idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Ray Bradbury fan. No, not just Fahrenheit 451 &#8212; though it&#8217;s a brilliant book and also (sadly) very topical right now &#8212; but also short story collections like The Golden Apples of the Sun. I read it a long time ago, but still think about several of the stories, so I guess that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42968","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=42968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42972,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42968\/revisions\/42972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}