{"id":2776,"date":"2019-03-09T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2022-05-04T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:23:12","slug":"what-is-a-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2019\/03\/09\/what-is-a-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a biography?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I get asked for a biography of myself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Is there really such a thing as a biography?<\/p>\n<p>After all, we are not really individuals. We are more like aspen colonies, all grown together but hiding the togetherness underground.<\/p>\n<p>What is a biography but an alibi?<\/p>\n<p>What is a biography but a ceremony?<\/p>\n<p>Who gets to have a biography and who barely even gets counted in the statistics?<\/p>\n<p>One thing at least is sure: that you can\u2019t write about yourself without writing about others, since the comic fact is that we all have otherness inside ourselves and live inside other people too.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something funny about biographies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I get asked for a biography of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}