{"id":179,"date":"2009-01-29T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-01-29T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:40:50","slug":"answers-to-last-weeks-mi-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Answers to Last Week’s MI-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) \u201cAn oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.\u201d (This is the book I\u2019m currently reading.) Answer:<\/em> This actually is<\/em> the book of Malachi! I try to read five chapters in the Bible every morning. I start at the front, and read to the end. Once I get to the end, I start over. Someone mentioned that when they did that sort of reading, they picked a new translation each time. So, I’ve decided to do that! I read the King James, and am working on the New International now. I start Mark tonight! (I also sometimes read in the evening.)<\/span><\/p>\n

2) \u201cTHE \u2018Red Death\u2019 had long devastated the country.\u201d (One of my favorite short stories.) Answer:<\/em> “The Masque of the Red Death<\/a>” by Edgar Allan Poe. I figured some of you would at least be able to guess that one. I’m a huge Poe fan, and “Masque” is high on my list of favorites. I made a blog template with that theme, and produced a Reader’s Theater<\/a> piece based on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) \u201cMy grandmother, in her own way, shines like a beacon down the stormy American past.\u201d (A favorite book I read over and over. Most of you probably haven\u2019t read it.) Answer: <\/em>This is “Revenge of the Lawn<\/a>” by Richard Brautigan<\/a>. I think my English teacher Roz Costa introduced me to him. He’s one of my favorites. I own all his works I can reasonably afford. The only things I don’t have are the outrageously expensive out-of-print stuff. The rest of it I’ve read.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) \u201cHe was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days know without taking a fish.\u201d (This one you\u2019ve probably all read, and should be an easy guess. This is a book I want to re-read.) Answer: <\/em>“The Old Man and the Sea<\/a>” by Hemingway. I figured this would be an easy guess too. I didn’t read this in high school, but it’s frequently required reading. Last week I mentioned I wanted to re-read it. I did–this week!<\/span><\/p>\n

5) \u201cWhen you ask why I dwell here docile among the far green hills, I laugh in my heart. My heart is happy.\u201d (I\u2019d guess none of you have ever read this book; I read it rather frequently.) Answer:<\/em> The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems\u00a0 in Prose.”\u00a0 It’s out of print. It’s everything about me, in poems: it’s romantic, wistful, and melancholy. See if this sounds like something I might like…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To His Dead Lover<\/span><\/p>\n

“The swishing sound of silk is still. The dust gathers on marble floors. The room is hollow, cold and silent. Leaves have drifted against the doors.<\/p>\n

Longing for that lost sweet girl, I wonder how to lull my aching heart to rest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) \u201cAn oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.\u201d (This is the book I\u2019m currently reading.) Answer: This actually is the book of Malachi! I try to read five chapters in the Bible every morning. I start at the front, and read to the end. Once I get to the end, I … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-179","6":"format-standard","7":"category-the-mi-5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}