{"id":8683,"date":"2008-12-10T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:08:15","slug":"a-book-of-days-for-1931-december-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8683","title":{"rendered":"December 10: &#8220;The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00086DZDU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00086DZDU\"><i>A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00086DZDU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DECEMBER 10, THURS.  1931<\/p>\n<p>Hard is his Lot, that here by Fortune plac&#8217;d,<br \/>\nMust watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste;<br \/>\nWith ev&#8217;ry Meteor of Caprice must play,<br \/>\nAnd chase the new-blown Bubbles of the Day.<br \/>\nAh!  let not Censure term our Fate our Choice,<br \/>\nThe Stage but echoes back the publick Voice.<br \/>\nThe Drama&#8217;s Laws the Drama&#8217;s Patrons give,<br \/>\nFor we that live to please, must please to live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Prologue spoken by MR. GARRICK, Drury Lane, 1747<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure: DECEMBER 10, THURS. 1931 Hard is his Lot, that here by Fortune plac&#8217;d, Must watch the wild Vicissitudes of Taste; With ev&#8217;ry Meteor of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683"}],"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=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72539,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/72539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}