{"id":18624,"date":"2015-11-27T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=18624"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:45:13","slug":"jenny-diski-speaks-of-death-and-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/jenny-diski-speaks-of-death-and-dying.html","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Diski Speaks of Death and Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06pb54l\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18710\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/jenny-diski-speaks-of-death-and-dying.html\/jenni-diski-560\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,368\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jenny Diski Speaks of Death and Dying\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560-300x197.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560.jpg\" alt title=\"CLICK TO LISTEN: Jenny Diski Speaks of Death and Dying\" width=\"560\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a>Jenny Diski learned some months ago that she had inoperable lung cancer and, at best, another three years to live. She now writes about the experience and her treatment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06pb54l\">Something she said<\/a> about writers and writing reminds me of what William Burroughs pointed out (summarized in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylights.com\/book\/?GCOI=87286100159660&#038;fa=description\"><em>The Z Collection<\/em><\/a> as &#8220;no mummy needed.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28, 2016<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/apr\/28\/jenny-diski-obituary\">Jenny Diski has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Diski learned some months ago that she had inoperable lung cancer and, at best, another three years to live. She now writes about the experience and her treatment. Something she said about writers and writing reminds me of what William Burroughs pointed out (summarized in The Z Collection as &#8220;no mummy needed.&#8221;) April 28, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-media","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Jenni-Diski-560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-4Qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21758,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18624\/revisions\/21758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}