{"id":818,"date":"2011-06-09T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=818"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:23:22","slug":"broadsides-bono-and-pull-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Broadsides, Bono and pull quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-820\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Beckett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Beckett.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas \u00e0 Becket, Canterbury Cathedral\" title=\"Thomas a Becket\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-820\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beware the fate of turbulent priests! Stained glass window of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, from Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>This Thursday&#8217;s Thought (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/wordoftheday.html\">Word of the Day<\/a>) is: &#8216;Why is a supposedly peaceable archbishop firing a broadside?&#8217; Turbulent priest, beware the fate of your famous predecessor! (&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/jun\/09\/downing-street-hits-back-archbishops-broadside\">Downing Street hits back at archbishop&#8217;s broadside<\/a>&#8216;).<\/p>\n<p>Supplementary question: Is Bono the new James Joyce? <em>The Guardian<\/em> embellishes an article in its print edition this week entitled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/jun\/07\/bono-glastonbury-protests-tax-spirit\">Why Bono should welcome his Glastonbury reckoning<\/a>&#8216; with this gnomic quotation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pullguote over five<br \/>\nlines in here<br \/>\nhere herey<br \/>\nherey herey<br \/>\ntype over text<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herey, herey, indeed! Or, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2011\/jun\/08\/pants-on-fire-bernard-madoff\">letter writer John O&#8217;Dwyer<\/a> comments: &#8216;Surely the lyrics of an unreleased U2 song, showing that Bono is a genius and the true heir of James Joyce.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop&#8217;s broadside and pullquote poetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[116,28],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-words","tag-typo","tag-word-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}