{"id":4264,"date":"2016-01-17T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2016-01-17T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:49:25","slug":"it-can-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/it-can-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"it can disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Maybe, in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single, overlapping figure. And as we live our lives we discover&#8211;drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each&#8211;what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them. Knowing all the while that their lives are fleeting. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haruki Murakami, <strong>Sputnik Sweetheart<\/strong>, p 207<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abandonment is an invisible wound that does not heal easily. As a storyteller, I am attracted by it because it synthesizes the general precariousness of all we consider constant, the deconstruction of everything that seemed &#8220;normal.&#8221; Abandonment corrodes those certainties within which we believed we lived safely. Not only have we been abandoned, but we may not hold up when faced with the loss; we abandon ourselves, we lose the consistency that we have gained via the sweet habit of entrusting ourselves to others. So, to get through it, you must find a new equilibrium while at the same time acknowledging a new fact-namely, that everything you have can be taken from you, and with it your will to live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elena Ferrante, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2015\/08\/elena-ferrante-interview-the-story-of-the-lost-child\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair interview<\/a>, August 27, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe, in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single, overlapping figure. And as we live our&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}