{"id":1534,"date":"2008-01-02T17:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/01\/02\/a-form-of-not-being-sure\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:57:45","slug":"a-form-of-not-being-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/a-form-of-not-being-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Form of Not Being Sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemaze-studio.com\/canvas\/351002_1192516.htm\">this print<\/a> to decorate the wall of my office.  I like the art, and the title is &#8220;Time&#8217;s Arrow,&#8221; so how could I resist?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemaze-studio.com\/canvas\/351002_1192516.htm\"><img class=\"center\" src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/co01.jpg' alt='Time\u2019s Arrow by Costa' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I did have a worry:  the painting clearly involved text, which I tend to think is an aesthetic mistake &#8212; it brings a depressing specificity to what should be an open-ended interpretive process.  And here the resolution of the online image was too small for me to make out the words, so what if the text was completely dopey?<\/p>\n<p>Now it has arrived, and here is the main text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.<\/p>\n<p>The artist never entirely knows.  We guess; we may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I kind of like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this print to decorate the wall of my office. I like the art, and the title is &#8220;Time&#8217;s Arrow,&#8221; so how could I resist? But I did have a worry: the painting clearly involved text, which I tend to think is an aesthetic mistake &#8212; it brings a depressing specificity to what should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}