{"id":8850,"date":"2023-04-10T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2023-04-10T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T20:33:23","slug":"culture-kurt-vonnegut-on-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8850","title":{"rendered":"CULTURE: Kurt Vonnegut on The Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"813\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7565-813x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8849\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7565-813x1024.jpg 813w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7565-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7565-768x967.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7565.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">KV. A terrific writer. With some great insights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to thank a secondary school English teacher (Mrs Martin?), for introducing me to Kurt Vonnegut. Truth be told it was her sex appeal &#8211; a bright and beautiful young woman, with a fascinating looking book &#8211; as much as the literary appeal that first took me. Ah, Mrs Martin, where are you now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"333\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7567.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7567.jpg 333w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_7567-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The edition Mrs Martin had.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, today, on FB, he was quoted by one of those weirdly intrusive \u2018you might like this\u2019 meme-things. I reproduce the quote below, keeping the bit about homosexuality that they omitted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don&#8217;t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I&#8217;m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven&#8217;s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to online sources this quote comes from <em>Man Without A Country<\/em>. I must get\/read that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to thank a secondary school English teacher (Mrs Martin?), for introducing me to Kurt Vonnegut. Truth be told it was her sex appeal &#8211; a bright and beautiful young woman, with a fascinating looking book &#8211; as much as the literary appeal that first took me. Ah, Mrs Martin, where are you now? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CULTURE: Kurt Vonnegut on The Arts&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[178,260,89,73,226,146,130,277,77,20,107,257],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2iK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}