{"id":2199,"date":"2021-05-11T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2021-05-11T19:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:31:53","slug":"carl-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Carl Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Another way to think of restlessness: as a form of ambition. Unsatisfied with the given\u2014the usual explanations, the usual goals for and trappings of a life\u2014there are those who push past the given, are willing to enter into uncertainty\u2014to take a risk\u2014in order to get something presumably superior and\/or preferable to \u201cthe old life.\u201d I don\u2019t mean corporate ambitions, the kind that can lead to and increase in money and power and material possessions\u2014I mean the quest for meaning, for heightened feeling, for expanded vision, even if that should mean that we arrive at what disturbs, leaving us more unsettled, less at rest than we had been. This, I would argue, is the artist\u2019s sensibility. And I\u2019ll point out that it\u2019s not a perverse desire for being disturbed; it\u2019s instead a recognition that growth can\u2019t happen without disturbance, and a realistic understanding of the world as a place where pleasure and its opposite coexist\u2014the artist refuses to ignore it, or perhaps more accurately the artist is incapable of ignoring it, because of a commitment to a knowledge that is absolute, entire, and at last elusive.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 <i>The Art of Daring<\/i><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another way to think of restlessness: as a form of ambition. Unsatisfied with the given\u2014the usual explanations, the usual goals for and trappings of a life\u2014there are those who push past the given, are willing to enter into uncertainty\u2014to take a risk\u2014in order to get something presumably superior and\/or preferable to \u201cthe old life.\u201d I don\u2019t mean corporate ambitions, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/2199"}],"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=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}