{"id":133085,"date":"2017-11-15T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133085"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:15:01","slug":"dennis-hopper-and-rudyard-kipling-by-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133085","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling: From Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8B4dhHUN9A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is one of the best things Dennis Hopper ever did, rivaling all of his other great performances. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this is a poem my grandmother (on the O&#8217;Malley side) loved and also knew by heart. My cousin Mike has a framed copy of it on his desk. Once when Mike emailed all of the O&#8217;Malley aunts and uncles and cousins (our number reaches the level of a small Army unit) to invite us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=58379\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a gathering at an inn in Vermont<\/a>, he gave us instructions on when we should arrive. He told us that if we did NOT comply, we would be forced to recite Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s poem &#8220;If&#8221; for the group. Terrified of this prospect, we all arrived at the appointed time.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Hopper probably would have arrived late on purpose so he could recite the poem for us. <\/p>\n<p>What a riveting riveting performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best things Dennis Hopper ever did, rivaling all of his other great performances. Incidentally, this is a poem my grandmother (on the O&#8217;Malley side) loved and also knew by heart. My cousin Mike has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=133085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[273,2243,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157759,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133085\/revisions\/157759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}