{"id":604,"date":"2022-08-15T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=604"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:14:44","slug":"surplus-enjoyment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/surplus-enjoyment\/","title":{"rendered":"Surplus Enjoyment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been busy and I&#8217;ve lacked opportunity to blog. <em>Tant pis<\/em>, as the French say. Right now I&#8217;m in Izmir. I was in four countries in four days last week. Like I say, busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to discuss and I intend to do so at my soonest convenience. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a particular highlight &#8211; me being quite rightfully ignored by Yuval Noah Harari and Slavoj Zizek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a privilege to be present and listen to these two intellectual heavyweights discussing current affairs and their ideas about history. The debate will be made public later this month, I believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fadb4-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/295909862_5393708484052763_7178526378018986182_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=8bfeb9&amp;_nc_ohc=wfFDwAH9LCAAX8ejnr8&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fadb4-1.fna&amp;oh=00_AT_IwlTbsbi25kkiAxdb6qKByzIU7SP7PXG3DYkC5ufQlQ&amp;oe=62FFEAC1\" alt=\"May be an image of 4 people, people standing and indoor\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been busy and I&#8217;ve lacked opportunity to blog. Tant pis, as the French say. Right now I&#8217;m in Izmir. I was in four countries in four days last week. Like I say, busy. There&#8217;s a lot to discuss and I intend to do so at my soonest convenience. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a particular &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/surplus-enjoyment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surplus Enjoyment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[298,224,36],"tags":[10,427,428],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-history","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-slavoj-zizek","tag-yuval-noah-harari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-9K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}