{"id":7005,"date":"2003-07-26T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/7005\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:55:15","slug":"7005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/7005\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blade, American Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial\">And all this could seem like a dream out the door<br \/>\nWith everyday people, face down on the floor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial\"><i>from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdepot.com\/night-ranger\/the-secret-of-my-succe-s.html\" target=\"new\">The Secret of My Succe$s<\/a>&#8220;<br \/>\nin the collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002Q7Z\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000002Q7Z&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=fc7c33317d85ef3ddb064bf18ff4c2d1\" target=\"new\">Big Life<\/i><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nClass, discuss:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why would a dream leave the building, and would it use a door?  Does this personification of the concept of &#8220;dream&#8221; work in the complete context of the poem?\n<li>What aspects of modern life command common people lie to face down on the floor and to not move, it&#8217;s not kidding this is a real gun?  How does this compare to Thoreau&#8217;s assertion that most men lead lives of quiet desperation?\n<li>Does the juxtaposition of metaphors identify the harried nature of the contemporary world, or is it a feeble attempt to force rhymes?\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And all this could seem like a dream out the door With everyday people, face down on the floor from &#8220;The Secret of My Succe$s&#8220; in the collection Big Life Class, discuss: Why would a dream leave the building, and would it use a door? Does this personification of the concept of &#8220;dream&#8221; work in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","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=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21312,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}