{"id":56201,"date":"2023-04-03T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=56201"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T15:21:42","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-prepare-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/04\/what-does-it-mean-to-prepare-for-death.html","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Prepare for Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t have a terminal disease, unless it’s called old age.<\/em> But \u2018I am getting ready \u2026\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Of course there’s always this to consider: being ready to die is an illusion<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t have a terminal disease, unless it\u2019s called old age. . . . But there’s always this to consider: being ready to die is an illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56520,"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-56201","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\/2023\/04\/TESTAMENT-CT-card-ultiimo-3-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eCt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56201","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=56201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57386,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56201\/revisions\/57386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}