{"id":12272,"date":"2009-10-31T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/31\/john-gays-epitaph\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:54:30","slug":"john-gays-epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/31\/john-gays-epitaph\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gay&#8217;s Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Life is a jest; and all things show it.<br \/>I thought so once; but now I know it.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirjasto.sci.fi\/jgay.htm\"><font face=\"Georgia\">John Gay<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> (1685-1732), &quot;My Own Epitaph&quot; from <strong>The Oxford Book of Death<\/strong>, ed. D. J. Enright, 1983, p. 322. <\/p>\n<p>Exercise for the reader: Explain the connection between John Gay and Bobby Darin.&#0160; Answer below the fold.<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<font face=\"Georgia\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Malcolm Pollack writes, &quot;Why, that&#39;s an easy one, Bill. <\/p>\n<p>John Gay wrote <em>A Beggar&#39;s Opera<\/em>, in which the principal character is the scoundrel MacHeath; MacHeath, of course, is the &quot;Mack&quot; in Darin&#39;s hit version of the Weill\/Brecht song &quot;Mack the Knife&quot;, from the musical version <em>The Threepenny Opera<\/em>.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it. John Gay (1685-1732), &quot;My Own Epitaph&quot; from The Oxford Book of Death, ed. D. J. Enright, 1983, p. 322. Exercise for the reader: Explain the connection between John Gay and Bobby Darin.&#0160; Answer below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}