{"id":39631,"date":"2020-05-16T10:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39631"},"modified":"2020-05-16T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T14:08:45","slug":"borges-to-whoever-is-reading-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/05\/borges-to-whoever-is-reading-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Borges: &#8216;To Whoever Is Reading Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You are invulnerable. Have they not granted you,\nthose powers that preordain your destiny,\nthe certainty of dust?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/borges-to-whoever-is-reading-me-recto-365-brdr\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr.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=\"BORGES: &amp;#8216;To Whoever Is Reading Me&amp;#8217;  (recto) [Cold Turkey Press, 2020]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39629\" width=\"346\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-recto-365-brdr-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerardbellaart.com\/cold_turkey_archives.php\">Cold Turkey Press<\/a>. Card limited to 36 copies.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39630\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/borges-to-whoever-is-reading-me-verso-365-brdr\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"364,546\" 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=\"BORGES: &amp;#8216;To Whoever Is Reading Me&amp;#8217; [Cold Turkey Press, 2020]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39630\" width=\"345\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are invulnerable. Have they not granted you,<br \/>\nthose powers that preordain your destiny,<br \/>\nthe certainty of dust? [. . .]<br \/>\nDark, you will enter the darkness that awaits you,<br \/>\ndoomed to the limits of your traveled time.<br \/>\nKnow that in some sense you are already dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39630,"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-39631","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\/2020\/05\/BORGES-To-Whoever-Is-Reading-Me-verso-365-brdr.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ajd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631","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=39631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39653,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39631\/revisions\/39653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}