{"id":29765,"date":"2018-06-04T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=29765"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:29:02","slug":"the-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><font color=\"#000000\">War is always a poison to the soul, even the most just wars.  No more important victory was ever achieved than World War II, but America was poisoned, perhaps fatally, by the aftermath of its own success, because we never faced what war really is.  It\u2019s very difficult.  There are no words for it. <em>&#8212; William Osborne<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_29763\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows-recto-622.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29763\" data-attachment-id=\"29763\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows.html\/the-sorows-recto-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-recto-365.jpg\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart [Cold Turkey Press, 2018]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart. Click to enlarge.&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-recto-365-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-recto-365.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows-recto-622.png\" alt title=\"Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart [Cold Turkey Press, 2018] CLICK TO ENLARGE.\" width=\"365\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29763\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><font size=2>Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows-recto-622.png\">Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_29764\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-622.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29764\" data-attachment-id=\"29764\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows.html\/the-sorows-verso-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365.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=\"&amp;#8216;The Sorrows&amp;#8217; \u00a9 by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2018]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Click to enlarge.&lt;\/font&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365-201x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365.png\" alt title=\"&#039;The Sorrows&#039; \u00a9 by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2018] CLICK TO ENLARGE.\" width=\"365\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365.png 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-365-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><font size=2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorows-verso-622.png\">Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War is always a poison to the soul, even the most just wars. No more important victory was ever achieved than World War II, but America was poisoned, perhaps fatally, by the aftermath of its own success, because we never faced what war really is. It\u2019s very difficult. There are no words for it. &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29771,"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":[19,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29765","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-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-sorrows-recto-622.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7K5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765","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=29765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29785,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765\/revisions\/29785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}