{"id":28774,"date":"2018-03-11T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=28774"},"modified":"2018-03-15T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:53:52","slug":"speaking-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/speaking-for-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking for Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-620-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28782\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/speaking-for-myself.html\/unburied-recto-364\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"364,546\" 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=\"UNBURIED recto (364)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364.jpg\" alt title=\"Drawing \u00a9 Robbie Cornelissen [CLICK TO ENLARGE]\" width=\"364\" height=\"546\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-364-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso-426jpgbdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/speaking-for-myself.html\/unburied-verso-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso.png\" data-orig-size=\"365,546\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UNBURIED (verso)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso-201x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso.png\" alt title=\"&#039;Unburied&#039; \u00a9 by Jan Herman, [Cold Turkey Press, 2017] [CLICK TO ENLARGE]\" width=\"365\" height=\"546\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso.png 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-verso-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<center><font size=1>Death comes in all sizes \/ &#8212; sequoia, oak, and elm \/ maple, birch, fir, and pine, \/ elephants and whales \/ bumble bees and snails, \/ the Jews in the ovens, \/<br \/> Armenians slaughtered, \/ all the genocides before \/ and since. I am also dead .  . .<\/font><\/center><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_28800\" style=\"width: 737px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/fourteen-deformed-sonnets.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28800\" data-attachment-id=\"28800\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/speaking-for-myself.html\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"727,992\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1484446650&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Portrait of Jan Herman by Gerard Bellaart (35x25cm) [1\/15\/2017]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Portrait of JH by Gerard Bellaart, 2017&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy-220x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy.jpg\" alt Title=\"Portrait of JH by Gerard Bellaart, 2017 CLICK FOR MORE DEFORMED SONNETS\" width=\"727\" height=\"992\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy.jpg 727w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15-1-2017-1-copyenh-35x25cmcopy-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait by Gerard Bellaart, 2017 (35x25cm) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/03\/fourteen-deformed-sonnets.html\">CLICK FOR MORE DEFORMED SONNETS<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death comes in all sizes \/ &#8212; sequoia, oak, and elm \/ maple, birch, fir, and pine, \/ elephants and whales \/ bumble bees and snails, \/ the Jews in the ovens, \/ Armenians slaughtered, \/ all the genocides before \/ and since. I am also dead . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28783,"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-28774","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\/2018\/03\/UNBURIED-recto-620-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7u6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774","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=28774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28866,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28774\/revisions\/28866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}