{"id":2925,"date":"2010-01-21T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2010-01-21T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T10:04:38","slug":"quotethe-trials-of-tony-judt-the-chronicle-review-the-chronicle-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/quotethe-trials-of-tony-judt-the-chronicle-review-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote::The Trials of Tony Judt &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one moving essay, recently published in The New York Review, Judt addresses directly his life with ALS. <strong>&#8220;Helplessness,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;is humiliating even in a passing crisis\u2014imagine or recall some occasion when you have fallen down or otherwise required physical assistance from strangers. Imagine the mind&#8217;s response to the knowledge that the peculiarly humiliating helplessness of ALS is a life sentence<\/strong> (we speak blithely of death sentences in this connection, but actually the latter would be a relief).&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Trials-of-Tony-Judt\/63449\/\">The Trials of Tony Judt &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one moving essay, recently published in The New York Review, Judt addresses directly his life with ALS. &#8220;Helplessness,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;is humiliating even in a passing crisis\u2014imagine or recall some occasion when you have fallen down or otherwise required physical assistance from strangers. Imagine the mind&#8217;s response to the knowledge that the peculiarly humiliating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/quotethe-trials-of-tony-judt-the-chronicle-review-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote::The Trials of Tony Judt &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}