{"id":1493,"date":"2013-05-12T19:04:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-05-12T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:04:37","slug":"dfw-this-is-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"DFW: This Is Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of us complained about our recent commencement speaker recently, someone remarked that no commencement address is ever very good. There is one, I piped up, and that&#8217;s David Foster Wallace&#8217;s talk at Kenyon College in 2005. <a href=\"http:\/\/publicnoises.blogspot.it\/2009\/05\/david-foster-wallace-kenyon.html\">It should be read at every graduation everywhere<\/a>, and maybe then the world would be spared. <\/p>\n<p>An outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglossary.com\/#home\">The Glossary<\/a> has turned an excerpt from that talk into a pretty good short film. This was probably made for purposes of promotion as well as homage; I hope they get filthy rich.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/65576562?badge=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/65576562\">THIS IS WATER &#8211; By David Foster Wallace<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/theglossary\">The Glossary<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of us complained about our recent commencement speaker recently, someone remarked that no commencement address is ever very good. There is one, I piped up, and that&#8217;s David Foster Wallace&#8217;s talk at Kenyon College in 2005. It should be read at every graduation everywhere, and maybe then the world would be spared. An outfit called The Glossary has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}