{"id":34519,"date":"2019-04-02T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=34519"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:55:13","slug":"variation-on-a-clap-trap-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/04\/variation-on-a-clap-trap-theme.html","title":{"rendered":"Variation on a &#8216;Clap Trap&#8217; Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Personally, I prefer Brion Gysin&#8217;s versified lines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;In the beginning \/&nbsp;was the Word\u2014 \/&nbsp;been in You \/&nbsp;for a toolong time \/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I rub out the word . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;But unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/03\/prisoner-come-out.html\">that one<\/a>, this one was made to order.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":34226,\"align\":\"left\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"546\" data-attachment-id=\"34226\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/jh-clap-trap-recto-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-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=\"&amp;#8216;Clap Trap&amp;#8217; (recto) Cold Turkey Press, 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-recto-365-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-recto-365.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-34226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-recto-365.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-recto-365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-recto-365-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":34227,\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"547\" data-attachment-id=\"34227\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/jh-clap-trap-verso-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,547\" 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;Clap Trap&amp;#8217; (verso) Cold Turkey Press, 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-34227 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CLAP-TRAP-verso.png\">Click to enlarge.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I prefer Brion Gysin&#8217;s versified lines: &#8220;In the beginning \/\u00a0was the Word\u2014 \/\u00a0been in You \/\u00a0for a toolong time \/I rub out the word . . .&#8221;\u00a0But unlike that one, this one was made to order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34227,"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-34519","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\/2019\/03\/JH-clap-trap-verso-365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8YL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519","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=34519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34534,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34519\/revisions\/34534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}