{"id":4786,"date":"2010-06-16T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:55:04","slug":"a-barefoot-reader-of-ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/06\/16\/a-barefoot-reader-of-ulysses\/","title":{"rendered":"A Barefoot Reader of Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MonroeAndJoyce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4787\" title=\"MonroeAndJoyce\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MonroeAndJoyce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MonroeAndJoyce.jpg 465w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MonroeAndJoyce-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulysses_%28novel%29\"><em>Ulysses<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 That look on her face &#8211; a mix of befuddled interest and confused determination &#8211; is exactly how I read <em>Ulysses<\/em>.\u00a0 Monroe apparently kept a copy of the book in her car and stuck with the damn thing for a long time.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to wonder about this woman.\u00a0 She probably should have stayed far away from Kennedy and stuck a little closer to the things she really liked.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, it happens to be June 16th which is worldwide <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloomsday\">Bloomsday<\/a>, when <em>Ulysses<\/em> is celebrated with public readings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/index.php\">Dangerous Minds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce&#8217;s Ulysses.\u00a0 That look on her face &#8211; a mix of befuddled interest and confused determination &#8211; is exactly how I read Ulysses.\u00a0 Monroe apparently kept a copy of the book in her car and stuck with the damn thing for a long time.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to wonder about this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[1189,490,1190,491],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-dublin","tag-james-joyce","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-ulysses"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}