{"id":4989,"date":"2012-03-12T04:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2013-09-30T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:33:45","slug":"and-the-planet-mars-took-me-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/and-the-planet-mars-took-me-home\/","title":{"rendered":"and the planet mars took me home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Alone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, \u2018Take me home!\u2019 And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I\u2019ve written every day in the last 75 years. I\u2019ve never stopped writing. &#8211; Ray Bradbury<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of screen plays lately.  They&#8217;re good stand-ins for poetry.  But only when they&#8217;re done the way they ought to be done.   The Royal Tenenbaums, Lars and the Real Girl.  I read these every year.  They make me happy.  I have in my hand a poem my grandmother wrote the day she turned my age.   Disbelieving the birthday that I&#8217;ve now passed, the one Jane Smiley called the age of grief.  <em>Others arrive there sooner.  Almost no one arrives much later.<\/em> She was so young my grandmother, when she was my age.  Ray Bradbury is not young.  He is awesome.  <em>Listen&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, \u2018Take me home!\u2019 And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I\u2019ve written every day in the last 75 years. I\u2019ve never stopped writing. &#8211; Ray Bradbury I&#8217;ve been reading a lot<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hum-drum","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}