{"id":27370,"date":"2017-10-16T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=27370"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:19:54","slug":"16_misplaced-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/10\/16_misplaced-algorithm.html","title":{"rendered":"Had the Algorithm Been Misplaced?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drawing by Gerard Bellaart<\/em><\/font>
\n<\/a>The corpse blinked.
\nDead but alive
\ndreaming awake.
\nHad the algorithm
\nbeen misplaced?
\nWas it “life-in-death”
\nwithin the winding sheet
\nor “death-in-life”?
\nSignaling the dreamer,
\nthe corpse winked
\nbut could not speak
\n \u2014 or would not.
\nI woke
\nand no sleep came.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drawing by Gerard Bellaart The corpse blinked. Dead but alive dreaming awake. Had the algorithm been misplaced? Was it “life-in-death” within the winding sheet or “death-in-life”? Signaling the dreamer, the corpse winked but could not speak \u2014 or would not. I woke and no sleep came.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27369,"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":[19,18,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AWAKE-recto-366x547.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-77s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370","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=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27443,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions\/27443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}