{"id":13891,"date":"2025-07-03T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T19:37:33","slug":"mondegreen-prompt-848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/mondegreen-prompt-848\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondegreen . . . Prompt #848"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"green
Photo by Mohan Nannapaneni on Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from June 16 River Teeth, \u201cMondegreen<\/a>,\u201d by Diane Gottlieb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl o’Moray,” and mishearing the words “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diane\u2019s piece begins like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I found a lost memory today. Discovered it inside a writing prompt: recall something you\u2019ve misheard. The title of the 1971 Sly and the Family Stone song is ‘It\u2019s a Family Affair,’ but I swore it was ‘A Family of Bears.’ How wonderful it felt to belt out a song about bears and more bears, a family of bears.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mondegreen inspired from \u201cBlue Jay Way,\u201d by the Beatles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Misheard Lyrics: <\/em>There’s a frog upon a lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Lyrics: <\/em>There’s a fog upon L.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt: Write about a mondegreen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#justwwrite #iamawriter #iamwriting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from June 16 River Teeth, \u201cMondegreen,\u201d by Diane Gottlieb: A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar. American writer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1190],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3C3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13895,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions\/13895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}