{"id":35654,"date":"2019-07-01T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=35654"},"modified":"2019-07-01T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:47:10","slug":"remembering-heathcote-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/07\/remembering-heathcote-williams.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Heathcote Williams . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">. . . on the second anniversary of his death. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26353\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/07\/a-great-one-died-today-2.html\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy.png\" data-orig-size=\"351,351\" 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=\"HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS [Photo: JH 2013]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Heathcote Williams&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy.png\" alt=\"Heathcote Williams [Photo: JH, 2013]\" class=\"wp-image-26353\" width=\"229\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy.png 351w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><figcaption><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/08\/dyings-annoying-a-poem-by-heathcote-williams.html\">Heathcote Williams<\/a><\/strong> [Photo: JH]<br><em>&#8216;He was the Shelley of his age.&#8217;\u2014GB<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Nimble as you were in your \u2018hey\u2019day,&nbsp;<br>Your \u2018wow\u2019zone resplendent, whenever your&nbsp;<br>Writing and way claimed a mind.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Those still on the planet salute you in love,&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Winking our wish through the cosmos,&nbsp;<br>Broadcasting life\u2019s message that yours<br>Is the path still to find. It used to lead<br>To Oxford, but now, it stretches on . . .<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>\u2014David Erdos<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimble as you were in your \u2018hey\u2019day, \/ Your \u2018wow\u2019zone resplendent, \/ whenever your \/ Writing and way claimed a mind. \/ Those still on the planet salute you in love, \/ Winking our wish through the cosmos, \/ Broadcasting life\u2019s message that yours \/ Is the path still to find. It used to lead \/ To Oxford, but now, it stretches on . . . \u2014David Erdos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26353,"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":[18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/heathcote-williams-photo-copy.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654","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=35654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35674,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions\/35674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}