{"id":5194,"date":"2010-11-01T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2010-11-01T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T12:02:39","slug":"harry-mulisch-1927-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/harry-mulisch-1927-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Mulisch (1927-2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mulisch-780008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5195 lazyload\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mulisch-780008-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"291\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mulisch-780008-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mulisch-780008.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 391px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 391\/291;\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I never make things up, I just remember things that never happened.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have always admired this sentence by the great Dutch writer \u2014 novels, journalism, poetry, essays \u2014 who died this past Saturday. Details of his life <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Mulisch\">here<\/a>, and his Dutch website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulisch.nl\/\">here<\/a>. A number of his books translated into English are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=harry+mulisch&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">available<\/a>. He is also the writer who defined himself by saying &#8220;I am World War II&#8221; \u2014 alluding to his parents, the father an Austrian army officer who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII in Holland, which saved his wife, a Jew, and their son during the Nazi period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never make things up, I just remember things that never happened.&#8221; I have always admired this sentence by the great Dutch writer \u2014 novels, journalism, poetry, essays \u2014 who died this past Saturday.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[857],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-harry-mulisch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}