{"id":9867,"date":"2016-06-26T06:06:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T10:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2017-06-22T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:59:59","slug":"groucho-marx-to-peter-lorre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9867","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gif-peter-lorre-Favim.com-3784339.gif\" alt=\"gif-peter-lorre-Favim.com-3784339\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA letter from Groucho Marx to Peter Lorre (included in the wonderful <i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416536035\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1416536035&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=5819477a7f69dc8ad9ee94feb0a558d5\">The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1416536035\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>), that pleases me no end. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>October 5, 1961<\/p>\n<p>Dear Peter:<\/p>\n<p>It was very thoughtful of you to send me a book explaining James Joyce&#8217;s &#8220;Ulysses&#8221;.  All I need now is another book explaining this study by Stuart Gilbert who, if memory serves, painted the celebrated picture of George Washington which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum.  I realize that there is some two hundred years&#8217; difference in their ages, but any man who can explain Joyce must be very old and very wise.<\/p>\n<p>You disappeared rather mysteriously the other night, but I attribute this to your life of crime in the movies.<\/p>\n<p>Best to you both.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nGroucho<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from Groucho Marx to Peter Lorre (included in the wonderful The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx), that pleases me no end. October 5, 1961 Dear Peter: It was very thoughtful of you to send me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9867\">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":[7,28,39],"tags":[283,321,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867"}],"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=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118346,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/118346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}