{"id":13059,"date":"2015-07-22T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:59:07","slug":"she-carried-his-heart-in-a-silken-shroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"She Carried His Heart in a Silken Shroud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z072215maryshelley_husbandheart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Two famous sayings come to mind for this morning&#8217;s post&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A reporter once asked <strong>Stephen King<\/strong> why he writes such scary stories.&nbsp; <strong>King<\/strong> answered, &#8220;It is because I have the heart of a small boy&#8230; and I keep it in a jar on my desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second quote is when a person in love tells his\/her lover: &#8220;I give you my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems that <strong>Frankenstein<\/strong> author <strong>Mary Shelley<\/strong> took the second quote literally.&nbsp; After her husband died <strong>Shelley<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;kept the heart in a silken shroud, and is said to have carried it with her nearly everywhere for years. In 1852, a year after she died, Percy\u2019s heart was found in her desk. It was wrapped in the pages of one of his last poems, <em>Adonais<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65624\/mary-shelleys-favorite-keepsake-her-dead-husbands-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental_Floss<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two famous sayings come to mind for this morning&#8217;s post&#8230; A reporter once asked Stephen King why he writes such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26878,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/26878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}