{"id":30205,"date":"2018-06-25T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=30205"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T16:48:50","slug":"your-obituary-is-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/your-obituary-is-waiting.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Obituary Is Waiting<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\u200b(for Philip Larkin)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

My ego prefers
\nan obit published
\nby the NY Times.
\nBut anywhere else
\nwill do, even etched
\ninto a headstone
\nthat nobody reads
\nin a cemetery where
\nnobody ever goes.
\nI don’t know why
\nI care, but I do.
\nI don’t know why
\nanyone should care,
\nbut it\u2019s the custom to.<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

\u2014JH<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200b(for Philip Larkin) My ego prefers an obit published by the NY Times. But anywhere else will do, even etched into a headstone that nobody reads in a cemetery where nobody ever goes. I don’t know why I care, but I do. I don’t know why anyone should care, but it\u2019s the custom to. \u2014JH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30215,"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-30205","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\/gravestones-400x500.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7Rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205","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=30205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30233,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205\/revisions\/30233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}