{"id":14961,"date":"2014-11-18T03:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-italo-calvino-was-offered-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:29:25","slug":"explore-blog-italo-calvino-was-offered-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-italo-calvino-was-offered-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14961 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-italo-calvino-was-offered-the\/attachment\/14962\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ndq29abJzC1rqpa8po1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.com\/post\/100468088723\/italo-calvino-was-offered-the-1985-1986-term-of\">explore-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Italo Calvino<\/strong> was offered the 1985\u20131986 term of the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard. He\u00a0died weeks before he was scheduled to deliver his lectures, but working on them, his wife recalls, was the obsession of his final months. <\/p>\n<p>Calvino\u2019s manuscripts for the lectures, in which he looks back on \u201cthe millennium of the book\u201d and peers forward into what the future might hold for \u201cthe expressive, cognitive, and imaginative possibilities\u201d of language and literature, were his last legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is Calvino\u2019s enduring wisdom from the first lecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/10\/15\/italo-calvino-six-memos-for-the-next-millennium-lightness\/\">a magnificent meditation on lightness<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>explore-blog: Italo Calvino was offered the 1985\u20131986 term of the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard. He\u00a0died weeks before he was scheduled to deliver his lectures, but working on them, his wife recalls, was the obsession of his final months. Calvino\u2019s manuscripts for the lectures, in which he looks back on \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}