{"id":16,"date":"2014-12-07T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/no-heat-and-very-little-light\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:25:19","slug":"no-heat-and-very-little-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/no-heat-and-very-little-light\/","title":{"rendered":"No heat and very little light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Literature claims to be a record of human existence through time; it is the only way we have to understand what people used to be like. But this is a basic mistake, if not fraud, since in fact it only reflects the experience of writers &#8212; and writers are innately unrepresentative, precisely because they see life through and for writing. Literature tells us nothing, really, about what most people&#8217;s lives are like or have ever been like. If it has a memorial purpose, it is more like that of an altar at which priests continue to light a fire, generation after generation, even though it gives no heat and very little light.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Adam Kirsch: Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literature claims to be a record of human existence through time; it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"platta":{"numLikes":0,"numComments":18,"category":null,"themes":[],"commercial_partner":null,"thumbnail":false,"blog_id":38},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}