{"id":42983,"date":"2025-04-14T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42983"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:23:27","slug":"gorgeous-words-from-ray-bradbury-1920-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/gorgeous-words-from-ray-bradbury-1920-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous Words from Ray Bradbury, 1920 &#8211; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/an-idea-from-the-great-ray-bradbury-1920-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared an idea on reading<\/a> from the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Ray-Bradbury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Bradbury<\/a>. I also shared that I considered his writing influential &#8212; and remain in awe of the prescience of many of the ideas explored through his writing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42984\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dandelion-Wine_Ray-Bradbury-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dandelion-Wine_Ray-Bradbury-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dandelion-Wine_Ray-Bradbury-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dandelion-Wine_Ray-Bradbury.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to gorgeous words, it&#8217;s hard to beat this:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don\u2019t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">~ Ray Bradbury, <strong><em>Dandelion Wine <\/em><\/strong>(1957)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8615 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC04214-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC04214-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC04214-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC04214-1024x629.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I shared an idea on reading from the great Ray Bradbury. I also shared that I considered his writing influential &#8212; and remain in awe of the prescience of many of the ideas explored through his writing. But when it comes to gorgeous words, it&#8217;s hard to beat this: &#8220;Bees do have a [&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-42983","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\/42983","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=42983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42987,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions\/42987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}