{"id":3625,"date":"2013-07-22T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:01:10","slug":"ripeness-being-all-snowdens-secret-and-the-webs-new-nihilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/07\/22\/ripeness-being-all-snowdens-secret-and-the-webs-new-nihilism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripeness being all: Snowden&#8217;s secret and the web&#8217;s New Nihilism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heller\u00a0<\/strong>via Yossarian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently\u00a0<\/em><em>at the grim secret Snowden had spilled&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Man was matter, that was Snowden&#8217;s secret. Drop him out a window and he&#8217;ll fall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Set fire to him and he&#8217;ll burn. Bury him and he&#8217;ll rot, like other kinds of garbage.<br \/>\nThe spirit gone, man is garbage.\u00a0That was Snowden&#8217;s secret. Ripeness was all.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heller\u00a0via Yossarian: He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently\u00a0at the grim secret Snowden had spilled&#8230; Man was matter, that was Snowden&#8217;s secret. Drop him out a window and he&#8217;ll fall. Set fire to him and he&#8217;ll burn. Bury him and he&#8217;ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78827,1657,216,218,212,215],"tags":[78836,78837,78835,78838],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aasw","category-blogroll","category-fly-by-wire","category-not-so-popular","category-null","category-too-weird-for-fiction","tag-matter","tag-pimpling","tag-ripeness","tag-secrets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Wt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}