{"id":2803,"date":"2010-07-28T01:37:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2010-08-03T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T01:25:18","slug":"a-luminous-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/a-luminous-halo\/","title":{"rendered":"a luminous halo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. &#8211; Virginia Woolf <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ExVirginiaWoolf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ExVirginiaWoolf1\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ExVirginiaWoolf1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ExVirginiaWoolf1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf and enjoying it a good bit but I&#8217;ll leave the expounding to clever types like Flynn.   <\/p>\n<p>I find, more and more these days, that I&#8217;m one of Woolf&#8217;s commoners.  On Saturday I read Silence of the Lambs.  It left no impression on me whatsoever.  Demme&#8217;s interpretation swallowed it whole.    <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. &#8211; Virginia Woolf I&#8217;m reading The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf and enjoying it a good bit but I&#8217;ll leave the expounding to clever types like Flynn.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}