{"id":3555,"date":"2014-03-07T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:47:45","slug":"friday-five-literary-trivia-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five &#8211; Literary Trivia 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A distinctly March-centric post today&#8230; can you figure out how each of these works into that idea?<\/p>\n<p>On to today&#8217;s trivia!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t allow anonymous people to give me a sense of my worth.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This quote by Ralph Ellison, author of <em>Invisible Man<\/em>, should be something all authors with reviews should take to heart. Ellison was named after Ralph Waldo Emerson by his father, in hopes the child would grow up to be a poet.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=50% \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Robert Frost&#8217;s <em>Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening<\/em> was apparently inspired by the poet&#8217;s depression caused by not being able to provide enough for his family. According to various theories, he did exactly as the poem suggests, stopping by a quiet wood; some believe that it alluded to finding a secluded place to commit suicide. Upon hearing the bells on the tack, he comes to realize he is needed, and must continue on. Repeating the last line &#8211; and miles to go before I sleep &#8211; seems to convey a submission to and acceptance of his fate moving forward to his death.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This interpretation of Frost&#8217;s poem drives me batty, and I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s not a popular one!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=50% \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde, put to paper Irish fairy tales and lore including spells, cures and charms from the old ones. She often referred to her son as &#8220;the young Pagan,&#8221; leading to speculation she (and her son) were indeed dabbling in witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=50% \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Most know that Dr. Seuss wasn&#8217;t a doctor, and in fact wasn&#8217;t named Seuss. Theodore Geisel used his mother&#8217;s maiden name as a pen name, eventually giving up on trying to have people pronouce Seuss properly. It does not rhyme with <em>goose<\/em> (soo-oose), but rather with <em>voice<\/em> (soy-se).<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=50% \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>The Secret of Ron Mor Skerry<\/em> by Rosalie Fry is better known by which name, after it was adapted to film in 1994?<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend!<br \/>\n<3\nJL\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distinctly March-centric post today&#8230; can you figure out how each of these works into that idea?<br \/>\nOn to today&#8217;s trivia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,870,799],"tags":[1887,25,1892,240,1888,1886,1889,29,1890,1891],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-headline","category-miscellania","tag-dr-seuss","tag-fiction","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-lady-wilde","tag-march","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-poetry","tag-ralph-ellison","tag-robert-frost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}