{"id":25093,"date":"2017-03-01T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=25093"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T18:56:31","slug":"filth-is-good-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/03\/filth-is-good-for-something.html","title":{"rendered":"Filth Is Good for Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>This blog has been called a breeding ground for filth. If it were true, I would have no objection.<br \/> A bit of filth is good for the health of any writer and for any of his readers. Where&#8217;s the proof?<br \/> Frank Harris, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Iceberg Slim, and the Marquis de Sade.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/03\/filth-is-good-for-something.html\/1-fragments-cover-border-522long\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"353,522\" 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=\"&amp;#8216;FRAGMENTS&amp;#8217; by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2017]&lt;br&gt;Image \u00a9 Gerard Bellaart\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long-203x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg\" alt title=\"Drawing by Gerard Bellaart \u00a9 Cold Turkey Press.\" width=\"353\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-FRAGMENTS-text-614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/03\/filth-is-good-for-something.html\/2-fragments-text-border-522long\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-FRAGMENTS-text-border-522long.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,522\" 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=\"from &amp;#8216;FRAGMENTS&amp;#8217; by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2017]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-FRAGMENTS-text-border-522long-210x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-FRAGMENTS-text-border-522long.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2-FRAGMENTS-text-border-522long.jpg\" alt title=\"Click to read the text.\" width=\"365\" 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If it were true, I would have no objection. A bit of filth is good for the health of any writer and for any of his readers. Where&#8217;s the proof? Frank Harris, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Iceberg Slim, and the Marquis de Sade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25095,"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":true,"_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":[19,18,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-media","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1-FRAGMENTS-cover-border-522long.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6wJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25093","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=25093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25176,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25093\/revisions\/25176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}