{"id":3092,"date":"2013-05-11T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/?page_id=3092"},"modified":"2013-05-30T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T18:54:39","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of this blog \u2013 Basic research on the self \u2013 is from an <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/038542339X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=038542339X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=janhenderson-20\" target=\"_blank\">essay by Phillip Lopate<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is something heroic in the essayist&#8217;s gesture of striking out toward the unknown, not only without a map but without certainty that there is anything worthy to be found. One would like to think that the personal essay represents a kind of basic research on the self, in ways that are allied with science and philosophy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/img\/jan-with-friedrich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/img\/jan-with-friedrich.jpg\" alt=\"jan-with-friedrich\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3512\" \/><\/a>Individual posts on this blog may only occasionally qualify as essays, but the blog as a whole strikes out toward the unknown, with only a rudimentary map and a great deal of uncertainty. I strongly suspect that, in making the self my subject matter, I will discover something of interest. For me, that\u2019s enough to make the endeavor worthy.<\/p>\n<p>See the post <a href=\" http:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/why-the-self\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why the self?<\/a> for a summary of my initial motivations for starting this blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of this blog \u2013 Basic research on the self \u2013 is from an essay by Phillip Lopate: There is something heroic in the essayist&#8217;s gesture of striking out toward the unknown, not only without a map but without certainty that there is anything worthy to be found. One would like to think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3092","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3092\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janhenderson.com\/self\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}