{"id":3986,"date":"2011-03-03T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2011-03-03T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T19:20:21","slug":"the-lunatics-are-on-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3986","title":{"rendered":"The lunatics are on the grass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things that made me chuckle, and one that didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodnightdune.com\/\"><strong>Goodnight Dune<\/strong><\/a>, the children&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodnightkeithmoon.com\/\"><strong>Goodnight Keith Moon<\/strong><\/a>, which is probably not for children.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/2011\/03\/03\/p4646-its-like-frank-herbert-margaret-wise-brown-and.post\">Robb Allen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This is an old story, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve linked it before: Margaret Wise Brown left the rights and royalties from her books to her neighbor Albert Clarke. Clarke was nine years old when she died in 1952. <a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaprager.com\/wsj\/articles\/goodnightmoon\/\">So what&#8217;s happened since then?<\/a> (I know this was published in 2000. I haven&#8217;t been able to turn up anything more recent on Albert Clarke, except a rather mean article on an obscure website calling him a drug addict and suggesting that nobody should ever buy a new copy of <strong>Goodnight Moon<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things that made me chuckle, and one that didn&#8217;t. Goodnight Dune, the children&#8217;s book. Goodnight Keith Moon, which is probably not for children. (Hattip: Robb Allen.) This is an old story, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve linked it before: Margaret Wise Brown left the rights and royalties from her books to her neighbor Albert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}