{"id":3054,"date":"2010-10-02T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2010-10-02T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T21:15:01","slug":"paternal-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/10\/02\/paternal-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternal honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>On the morning of July 2, Gregory asked his son to kill him. The asking was not a fully conscious request for practical steps &#8211; he suggested getting a stick and hitting him over the head with it, as if by brutal overstatement to achieve the opposite of euphemism &#8211; but it was a demanding paternal honesty.<\/address>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">(From Six Days of Dying. Mary Catherine Bateson. essay describing Gregory Bateson&#8217;s death) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oikos.org\/batdeath.htm\">read entire essay here<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of July 2, Gregory asked his son to kill him. The asking was not a fully conscious request for practical steps &#8211; he suggested getting a stick and hitting him over the head with it, as if by brutal overstatement to achieve the opposite of euphemism &#8211; but it was a demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[447,541],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-ernest-becker","tag-gregory-bateson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}