{"id":37420,"date":"2020-01-02T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=37420"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:04:38","slug":"__trashed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/01\/__trashed-3.html","title":{"rendered":"A Blogpost for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"351\" 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\" 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: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><figcaption>Heathcote Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/01\/american-porn-for-inauguration-day.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This was it<\/span><\/a>, Jan. 12, 2017 . . .<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It began like this . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On the day Twitter Fingers is sworn in as the preening&nbsp;<em>el presidente<\/em>&nbsp;of a tin-pot United States of Trumpistan, enabling him to run the country like a division of his family-held company . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . and continued with a 17-minute recording of Heathcote Williams reading his poem &#8220;The United States of Porn.&#8221; That reading alone puts the blogpost in a class of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"137\" data-attachment-id=\"37612\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/the-united-states-of-porn\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN.png\" data-orig-size=\"724,137\" 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=\"THE UNITED STATES OF PORN\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN-300x57.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN.png 724w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-PORN-300x57.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was it, Jan. 12, 2017 . . . It began like this: &#8216;On the day Twitter Fingers is sworn in as the preening\u00a0el presidente\u00a0of a tin-pot United States of Trumpistan, enabling him to run the country like a division of his family-held company . . . &#8216; and continued with a 17-minute recording of Heathcote Williams reading his poem &#8220;The United States of Porn.&#8221; That reading alone puts the blogpost in a class of its own.<\/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":[26,18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"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-9Jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420","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=37420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37752,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions\/37752"}],"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=37420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}