{"id":4067,"date":"2011-01-01T05:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:20","slug":"making-the-world-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/making-the-world-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the world light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theplayethic.com\/2009\/02\/the-presumptuous-taming-of-reality-john-updike-.html'>John Updike on why he writes:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>> So writing is my sole remaining vice. It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world &#8212; it happens to everybody. &#8230; Even the barest earthly facts are unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light &#8212; in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it &#8212; approaches blasphemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike on why he writes: > So writing is my sole remaining vice. It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/making-the-world-light\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,31,379,382,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-design","category-science-fiction","category-vision","category-writing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-13B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}