{"id":48336,"date":"2021-11-09T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=48336"},"modified":"2021-11-09T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:29:17","slug":"reading-hannah-arendt-puts-me-in-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/11\/reading-hannah-arendt-puts-me-in-awe.html","title":{"rendered":"Reading Hannah Arendt Puts Me in Awe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an essay about Isak Dinesen, whose fiction was closely drawn from her life, Arendt writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Life may contain the \u201cessence\u201d (what else could?); recollection, the repetition in imagination, may decipher the essence and deliver to you the \u201celixir\u201d; and eventually you may even be privileged to \u201cmake\u201d something out of it \u201cto compound the story.\u201d But life itself is neither essence nor elixir, and if you treat it as such it will only play its tricks on you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an essay about Isak Dinesen, whose fiction was closely drawn from her life, Arendt writes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48536,"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-48336","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\/2021\/10\/hannah-arendt.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-czC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336","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=48336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48747,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336\/revisions\/48747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}