{"id":33975,"date":"2013-11-01T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-is-a-longing-for-certainty-in-an-unstable\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T21:53:20","slug":"this-is-a-longing-for-certainty-in-an-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-is-a-longing-for-certainty-in-an-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>This is a longing for certainty in an unstable world. It is an escape from extremely complicated problems we cannot even name. It is a longing for the \u201cgreat simplification\u201d. It is nostalgia for a lost, simple world and the elementary array of tasks within this world.<\/p>\n<p>In this general cacophony \u2013 where serious debate about the state of affairs almost never takes place, in which television shows have actors in front of the footlights shouting slogans at one another and using \u201cword-bites\u201d as weapons \u2013 one needs some kind of certainty. It can take the form of a simple division between good and evil, in which our hearts are immaculate, and the evildoers are condemned for they have no hope of redemption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/globalization-vision_reflections\/modernity_3082.jsp\">The unwinnable war: an interview with Zygmunt Bauman | openDemocracy<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/finalbossform.com\/\">kenyatta<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a longing for certainty in an unstable world. It is an escape from extremely complicated problems we cannot even name. It is a longing for the \u201cgreat simplification\u201d. It is nostalgia for a lost, simple world and the elementary array of tasks within this world. In this general cacophony \u2013 where serious debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8PZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33975","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=33975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}