{"id":2809,"date":"2022-06-12T18:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:37:51","slug":"in-defense-of-ardor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Ardor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2812\" width=\"466\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Punks2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2816\" width=\"204\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GardenReverie-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These are dark times,<br \/>Open the window, the sun shines today for 15 hours 10 minutes. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And windy,&nbsp;<br \/>a piece of lettuce is blowing off my lunchplate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gesundheit,&nbsp;<br \/>we say to the sneeze heard through the open window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my summer reading list is \u201cIn Defense of Ardor\u201d<br \/>and intention to pronounce Zagajewski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ardor \u2014 heat of passion or desire &#8212;<br \/>in its air of noblity,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear nostalgia, and an extended hand<br \/>to the future&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 to carry a torch for someone, for some thing,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>enduring strange beauty in words&nbsp;<br \/>the scratch of magic, otherness, faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to carry a torch for carrying forth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are dark times,Open the window, the sun shines today for 15 hours 10 minutes. \u00a0 And windy,&nbsp;a piece of lettuce is blowing off my lunchplate. Gesundheit,&nbsp;we say to the sneeze heard through the open window. On my summer reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2809\">Continue reading <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":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Jj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}