{"id":6554,"date":"2007-05-30T07:27:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2015-12-28T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:27:18","slug":"commonplace-183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6554","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the wild, passionate and dissolute type of genius&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading a good number of biographies this year which I am sure you will commend.  Probably you remember how I picked up that volume of Ludwig&#8217;s Napoleon on the boat and liked it so well that the owner had to ask me for it.  I tried to get it at the library but it was out.  Instead I got a life of the Kaiser Wilhelm by the same author.  Since then I hve read several others of celebrated literary personages.  I have one at home now about Shelley, whose poetry I am studying at school.  His life is very interesting.  He seems to have been the wild, passionate and dissolute type of genius: which makes him very entertaining to read about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <i>Tennessee Williams, letter to his grandfather, Nov. 22, 1928<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading a good number of biographies this year which I am sure you will commend. Probably you remember how I picked up that volume of Ludwig&#8217;s Napoleon on the boat and liked it so well that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6554\">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":[9],"tags":[250,160,190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554"}],"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=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111656,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions\/111656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}