{"id":4936,"date":"2020-08-29T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2020-08-30T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:19:50","slug":"elena-ferrante-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"Elena ferrante Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/aug\/29\/elena-ferrante-we-dont-have-to-fear-change-what-is-other-shouldnt-frighten-us\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/aug\/29\/elena-ferrante-we-dont-have-to-fear-change-what-is-other-shouldnt-frighten-us\">Great interview.<\/a>..will read the new book soon.  This response, though, I&#8217;ll use in my class sooner rather than later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To what extent can a person reinvent herself far from her origins?\u00a0<\/strong><br><em><br><\/em>I would begin by emphasising that leaving is not betraying one\u2019s origins. Rather, we have to leave in order to assign origins and establish them as the foundation of our growth. Wandering, we transform our bodies into crowded warehouses. New materials weigh on the original ones, modifying them by merging with them, blending with them. We ourselves seesaw between various ways of being, sometimes enriching our identity, sometimes impoverishing it by subtraction. But our birthplace endures. It\u2019s the ground upon which our primary experiences stand, where we first exercise our gaze, first imagine, first express ourselves. And the more solid we find that ground to be, the more varied is our experience of elsewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great interview&#8230;will read the new book soon. This response, though, I&#8217;ll use in my class sooner rather than later. To what extent can a person reinvent herself far from her origins?\u00a0I would begin by emphasising that leaving is not betraying one\u2019s origins. Rather, we have to leave in order to assign origins and establish them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=4936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elena ferrante Interview<\/span> <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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","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-1hC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","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=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}