{"id":427,"date":"2012-11-05T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/?p=427"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:52:32","slug":"proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/11\/05\/proust\/","title":{"rendered":"Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I particularly enjoyed the Proust reading. \u00a0It was interesting how he found himself waking up in random places and how this made him lose track of past and present. \u00a0This made me think of Vonnegut&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Slaughterhouse-Five<\/span>. \u00a0SH-5 is all about a man who has become &#8220;unhinged&#8221; in time and finds himself waking up in random time periods. \u00a0This is like the narrator of the story. \u00a0Both begin to question the flow of time. \u00a0 This narrative also provided another interesting viewpoint on the mix of past and present. \u00a0It was also unique and compelling how he looked at how the present and future affect each other through current pleasure or current\u00a0dissatisfaction\u00a0can shape our future perspectives just like future expectations can cause our current actions. \u00a0This is definitely another article which provides interesting insights on the true nature of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I particularly enjoyed the Proust reading. \u00a0It was interesting how he found himself waking up in random places and how this made him lose track of past and present. \u00a0This made me think of Vonnegut&#8217;s\u00a0Slaughterhouse-Five. \u00a0SH-5 is all about a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/2012\/11\/05\/proust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/time\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}