{"id":11693,"date":"2020-08-20T22:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2020-09-20T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T05:39:27","slug":"11693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11693","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I rather believe with Faulkner, \u201cThe past is never dead, it is not even past,\u201d and this for the simple reason that the world we live in at any moment\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0the world of the past; it consists of the monuments and the relics of what has been done by men for better or worse; its facts are always what has become (as the Latin origin of the word:\u00a0<i>fieri\u2014factum est<\/i>\u00a0suggests). In other words, it is quite true that the past\u00a0<i>haunts<\/i>\u00a0us; it is the past\u2019s function to haunt us who are present and wish to live in the world as it really is, that is, has\u00a0<i>become<\/i>\u00a0what it is now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Hannah Arendt, &#8222;Home to Roost&#8220;, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">New York<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Review of Books<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">June 26, 1975<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rather believe with Faulkner, \u201cThe past is never dead, it is not even past,\u201d and this for the simple reason that the world we live in at any moment\u00a0is\u00a0the world of the past; it consists of the monuments and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11693\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}