{"id":43428,"date":"2020-12-09T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=43428"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:17:36","slug":"on-account-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/12\/on-account-of-the-pandemic.html","title":{"rendered":"On Account of the Pandemic . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">. . . a thought for today:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/vaccine-with-gb-image-750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"737\" data-attachment-id=\"43462\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/c-19-7-2006option-480-enhuse\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,737\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1152951258&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Drawing collage by Gerard Bellaart (2006)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse-195x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Drawing \/ collage \u00a9 2006 by Gerard Belllaart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"block-bc395db4-f740-42a5-95d9-3d406daa5852\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong><em>VACCINE<\/em>\n\nIt\u2019s not a matter&nbsp;\nof knowing we&nbsp;will end\u2014\u2014\nthat is not&nbsp;the matter<\/strong>,\n<strong>though it's no fun.\nEverything&nbsp;will end.\nThe&nbsp;matter is, \nthere's no cure for it. \nWhen&nbsp;death is&nbsp;deleted&nbsp;\nby way of coding\u2014\u2014digital,&nbsp;\ngenetical,&nbsp;biochemical\u2014\u2014\nwhatever&nbsp;combination&nbsp;\nit takes\u2014\u2014something else\nwill provoke us. Freud\nthought it perpetual.<\/strong>\n\n<strong><em>JH<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VACCINE: It\u2019s not a matter \/ of knowing we will end\u2014 \/ though it\u2019s no fun, \/ that is not the matter\u2014 \/ everything will end. \/ The matter is, \/ there&#8217;s no cure for that. \/ When death is deleted \/ by coding\u2014digital, \/ genetical, biochemical\u2014 \/ whatever combination \/ it takes\u2014something else \/ will provoke us. Freud \/ thought it perpetual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43462,"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-43428","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\/12\/c-19-7-2006option-480-ENHuse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bis","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43428","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=43428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49100,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43428\/revisions\/49100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}