{"id":13,"date":"2010-08-31T02:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-08-31T02:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T02:53:34","slug":"image-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Image and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Latour begins his work <em>Iconoclash<\/em> with a description of Italian firemen risking their lives to break the glass protecting the Shroud of Turin so that they could rescue it from the flames as the cathedral burned.\u00a0 The image on this cloth has fascinated people for millenia.\u00a0 It has been an object of devotion, declared an object of veneration by the Pope, and an object studied intensely by scientists in an attempt to determine its age and its origins.\u00a0 To enhance our understanding of the possible meaning of this image for humankind, I invite you to read the Wikipedia article on the Shroud of Turin:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shroud_of_Turin\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shroud_of_Turin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Latour begins his work Iconoclash with a description of Italian firemen risking their lives to break the glass protecting the Shroud of Turin so that they could rescue it from the flames as the cathedral burned.\u00a0 The image on this cloth has fascinated people for millenia.\u00a0 It has been an object of devotion, declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}