{"id":4768,"date":"2015-09-21T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2015-09-22T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:09:38","slug":"what-time-is-it-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"What time is it? Well…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lightpole\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Sometimes you just find someone interesting.\u00a0 As it is, I think H.G. Wells is pretty fascinating.\u00a0 Of course, he wrote about a few of the subjects which intrigue me.\u00a0 The greatest of those were his more notable works\u2026 such as The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).<\/p>\n

Today, is his birthday.\u00a0 He was born Herbert George Wells in 1866.\u00a0 And he stuck around on this planet until the 13th of August in 1946.\u00a0 He wrote prolifically in many genres\u2026. including the novel, history, and politics.<\/p>\n

In 1920, H.G. Wells published The Outline of History.\u00a0 Most of us today do not realize that this was perhaps his best selling work during his lifetime. It was three volumes.\u00a0 It began with prehistory and followed the world’s events up through World War I.<\/p>\n

Wells believed there would be another major war to follow, and included his ideas for the future. Lobbying for a type of global socialism, he suggested the creation of a single government for the entire world.\u00a0 In his day\u2026 he was the dude.<\/p>\n

But he was a bit of a chappy I\u2019ll tell you.\u00a0 He was a pretty dang good cricket player when he was young.\u00a0 But then, he broke his leg in 1874.\u00a0 So he started reading while he was in bed\u2026 on the mend.\u00a0 He soon became devoted to the other worlds and lives to which books gave him access; they also stimulated his desire to write.\u00a0\u00a0 And that, is what got the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

Amidst all the other things about him \u2026 Wells was a bit of a player.\u00a0 In 1891, he married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells.\u00a0 But, but, but\u2026the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins.<\/p>\n

He married Amy Catherine (later known as Jane).\u00a0 He has two sons with her, but they both died fairly young.<\/p>\n

With his wife Jane’s consent, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger, adventurer and writer Odette Keun, and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves.\u00a0 He also had a son, Anthony West (1914\u20131987), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, 26 years his junior.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you.\u00a0 Old H.G. did some Time Traveling of his own.<\/p>\n

There are many more interesting and wild things about this guy.\u00a0 I think he knew more about his fiction\u2026 which may not have been so fictitious at all.<\/p>\n

Wells died of unspecified causes in 1946 at his home\u00a0 in London.\u00a0 Once, he had stated that his epitaph should be: “I told you so. You damned fools.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why I write about him tonight, other than his birthday.\u00a0 Maybe it is because I believe that Time Travel could be possible… and I think he thought so too.<\/p>\n

Or it could be that I just couldn’t think of one other thing to write tonight… and time was running out.<\/p>\n

Oh Wells….<\/p>\n

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2014\u00a0 H. G. Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Our true nationality is mankind.<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2014\u00a0 H. G. Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2014\u00a0 H. G. Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2014\u00a0 H. G. Wells<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay.\u00a0 Sometimes you just find someone interesting.\u00a0 As it is, I think H.G. Wells is pretty fascinating.\u00a0 Of course, he wrote about a few of the subjects which intrigue me.\u00a0 The greatest of those were his more notable works\u2026 such as The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}