{"id":61009,"date":"2024-07-08T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=61009"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:46:09","slug":"malaise-in-the-middle-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/07\/malaise-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Malaise . . . <\/em><\/strong> In the Middle of Nowhere<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u201cThe map for the middle of nowhere. 
Loud laughter from behind the bushes 
and from the surrounding mountain peak<\/em>s.\u201d \u2014 GB<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
You are \u2014 at 78 \u2014
in the middle of<\/strong>
nowhere.<\/strong>
I am \u2014 at 82 \u2014
in the middle of <\/strong>
wherever<\/strong>,
feeling 
like nowhere.<\/strong>
Not helped<\/strong> 
by late disasters<\/strong>
and no idea<\/strong>
of<\/strong> what to do<\/strong>
but write these lines
and think of better times<\/strong>.

\u2014 jh<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now turned into a card by Cold Turkey Press in an edition limited to 36 copies. (Click image to enlarge.)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No reference intended to America’s top shitholer<\/a>, who is 78, or to Joe Biden, who will be 82 in November..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not helped
\nby late disasters
\nand no idea
\nof what to do
\nbut write these lines
\nand think of better times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61013,"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-61009","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\/2024\/06\/map-of-nowhere-420BDR.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fS1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61009","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=61009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61788,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61009\/revisions\/61788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}