{"id":39106,"date":"2020-04-20T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39106"},"modified":"2020-05-03T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T19:18:57","slug":"just-an-arbitrary-notion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/04\/just-an-arbitrary-notion.html","title":{"rendered":"Just an Arbitrary Notion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><em>re: T.S. Eliot on a Monday morning<\/em> <em>in April<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/47311\/the-waste-land\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/just-an-arbitrary-notion-3-brdr-420\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420.png\" data-orig-size=\"420,675\" 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=\"Just an Arbitrary Notion gb\/jh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420-187x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39180\" width=\"291\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420.png 420w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Just-an-Arbitrary-Notion-3-brdr-420-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Waste Land<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/t-s-eliot-1933-365-cropped\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"353,653\" 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=\"T.S. Eliot [1933]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped-162x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39123\" width=\"253\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><figcaption>T.S. Eliot (1933)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AN-ARBITRARY-NOTION-as-3pp-750-brdr.jpg\" alt=\"\"><em>From the Cold Turkey Press folio (2020)<\/em>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AN-ARBITRARY-NOTION-page-4-750.png\" alt=\"\">\n\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for a useful meaning<br \/>\nno starched collar<br \/>\ninked his lines<br \/>\nnor the uptight<br \/>\nnarrowness<br \/>\nof the familiar<br \/>\nbank clerk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39123,"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":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39106","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-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/T.S.-Eliot-1933-365-cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aaK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39106","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=39106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39403,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39106\/revisions\/39403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}