{"id":3100,"date":"2023-07-24T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:10:16","slug":"simone-weil-happy-beachgoer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Simone Weil: Happy Beachgoer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tinos-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that ships are sometimes wrecked by it.\u00a0\u00a0On the contrary, this adds to its beauty,\u201d says Simone Weil, French philosopher in a poetic mood.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019s right: the endless surface of the sea, whether navy or aquamarine, has the abyss tucked into it.\u00a0\u00a0Summer used to be billed as a time to shed every care; now we know it will be ringed by wildfires or panting hot temperatures, by enclosures on the tarmac or by encirclements of algae.\u00a0\u00a0How else to reach paradise but by snaking roads, switchbacks and old goat paths that flirt along unguarded cliffs?\u00a0\u00a0But those 300 degree views of the sea!\u00a0\u00a0That dizzying compact between danger and thrill.\u00a0\u00a0Even when lying passively on a beach, you are in the solar eye.\u00a0\u00a0Remember Weil:\u00a0&#8220;On the contrary, this adds to its beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that ships are sometimes wrecked by it.\u00a0\u00a0On the contrary, this adds to its beauty,\u201d says Simone Weil, French philosopher in a poetic mood.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019s right: the endless surface of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3100\">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":[1304,1306,138,1305,1303,1307],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abyss","tag-danger","tag-poetry","tag-realist","tag-summer-fun","tag-wildfires"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-O0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}