{"id":3453,"date":"2019-02-10T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T11:49:27","slug":"teju-cole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Teju Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everything I’ve read of his has stuck with me. This pair of questions from today’s paper is worth bringing to all sorts of art: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every picture of suffering should elicit a question stronger than \u201cWhy is this happening?\u201d The question should be \u201cWhy have I allowed this to happen?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Cole, Teju. \u201cWhen the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.).\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, February 10, 2019, sec. Magazine. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/06\/magazine\/when-the-camera-was-a-weapon-of-imperialism-and-when-it-still-is.html<\/a>.\n \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything I’ve read of his has stuck with me. This pair of questions from today’s paper is worth bringing to all sorts of art: Every picture of suffering should elicit a question stronger than \u201cWhy is this happening?\u201d The question should be \u201cWhy have I allowed this to happen?\u201d Cole, Teju. \u201cWhen the Camera Was … Continue reading Teju Cole<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-TH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}