{"id":25996,"date":"2020-04-11T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25996"},"modified":"2020-04-11T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:47:32","slug":"ziggy-suggests-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/11\/ziggy-suggests-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziggy Suggests a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of saddling my children with the task of writing a poem to which a movie alludes (such as &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/04\/homeschooling-day-%e5%8d%8c-%e5%8d%8c-iiii\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trees<\/a>&quot;), how about we turn to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/book-report-ziggys-of-the-world-unite-by-tom-wilson-1976-catss-by-gross-by-s-gross-1995\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ziggy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ziggyshotanarrow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The poem is &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44624\/the-arrow-and-the-song\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Arrow and The Song<\/a>&quot; by Longfellow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I shot an arrow into the air,<br \/>\nIt fell to earth, I knew not where;<br \/>\nFor, so swiftly it flew, the sight<br \/>\nCould not follow it in its flight.<\/p>\n<p>I breathed a song into the air,<br \/>\nIt fell to earth, I knew not where;<br \/>\nFor who has sight so keen and strong,<br \/>\nThat it can follow the flight of song?<\/p>\n<p>Long, long afterward, in an oak<br \/>\nI found the arrow, still unbroke;<br \/>\nAnd the song, from beginning to end,<br \/>\nI found again in the heart of a friend. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of years since I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/book-report-the-song-of-hiawatha-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-1982\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Song of Hiawatha<\/a><\/em>.  I should read more Longfellow.<\/p>\n<p>And do you remember that distant past of forty years ago when mass-market cartoons would allude to literature for their gags?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of saddling my children with the task of writing a poem to which a movie alludes (such as &quot;Trees&quot;), how about we turn to Ziggy? The poem is &quot;The Arrow and The Song&quot; by Longfellow: I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26005,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996\/revisions\/26005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}