{"id":2773,"date":"2018-06-03T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/06\/clever\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T01:22:36","slug":"clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/06\/clever\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing theme in this blog is the exploration of the role intellect vs. emotion play in creative endeavors &#8212; a topic referenced in a 1996 radio interview I came across with late writer David Foster Wallace. This particular observation piqued my interest since it aptly describes the raison d&#39;etre of much contemporary photography\u2026 indeed, art in general:<\/p>\n<p><em>When you see student\u2019s work where the point, whether it\u2019s stated or not, is basically that they\u2019re clever; and to try to articulate to the students how empty and frustrating it is for a reader to invest their time and attention in something that they feel the agenda is basically to show you that the writer\u2019s clever.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing theme in this blog is the exploration of the role intellect vs. emotion play in creative endeavors &#8212; a topic referenced in a 1996 radio interview I came across with late writer David Foster Wallace. This particular observation piqued my interest since it aptly describes the raison d&#39;etre of much contemporary photography\u2026 indeed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}