{"id":2058,"date":"2014-11-09T18:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2014-11-09T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:56:50","slug":"pablo-m-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Pablo M. Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Strictly speaking, potential literature is everything and everything is potential literature. For the simple reason that anything can be turned into literature. We find the idea in Homer: \u201cThat is the gods\u2019 work, spinning threads of death \/ through the lives of mortal men, \/ and all to make a song for those to come\u201d (Odyssey). And we find in Nabokov: \u201cThe art of writing is a very futile business if it does not imply first of all the art of seeing the world as the potentiality of fiction.\u201d And nothing else is saying Mallarm\u00e9 in his famous dictum: \u201cEverything in the world exists to end up in a book.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>\u2014Four Cold Chapters on The Possibility of Literature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly speaking, potential literature is everything and everything is potential literature. For the simple reason that anything can be turned into literature. We find the idea in Homer: \u201cThat is the gods\u2019 work, spinning threads of death \/ through the lives of mortal men, \/ and all to make a song for those to come\u201d (Odyssey). And we find in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"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=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}