{"id":1519,"date":"2017-04-09T21:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-09-02T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:31:41","slug":"artsophistry-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/1519","title":{"rendered":"Artsophistry is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/6d\/58\/a6\/6d58a617c6773d58bf3e7c0cf8cfdb52.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nehemiah 6:9: \" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want my words to be cold, icy clear, and hard as diamond, not melting all over the place like a pile of slops. I have been laden with responsibility, you see. Whatever I say must love truth &#8211; not just tolerate or include or concede truth, but reach at it like a drowning man reaches for a life preserver.<\/p>\n<p>Precision is the imperative.<br \/>\nI think I had been writing falsely for a long time, because a few weeks ago, when I rediscovered a sliver of truth in a slipstream thought, God blessed me, and I was struck, my eyes were dazzled with freshness, my heart seemed to have been unlocked, and light poured into the room. I refuse to continue my scribbles in the grimy alley that I used to call Art.<br \/>\nArt involves truth, not undisciplined imagination and ridiculous morbidity.<br \/>\nArt involves a rare talent for seeing things clearly and being able to express them clearly. Paintings must be uncorrupted, unencrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>Sophistry is eventually insufficient &#8211; when the flames of time sweep the floors, I want my words to be\u00a0founded in the Rock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want my words to be cold, icy clear, and hard as diamond, not melting all over the place like a pile of slops. I have been laden with responsibility, you see. Whatever I say must love truth &#8211; not just tolerate or include or concede truth, but reach at it like a drowning man&#8230;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,464,23,462,463,461,187,181,88,460,268,85],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-dontusehashtags","tag-464","tag-art","tag-blog","tag-desire","tag-epiphany","tag-god","tag-imagination","tag-philosophy","tag-theory","tag-truth","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-ov","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}