{"id":7349,"date":"2011-12-02T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:50:31","slug":"christa-wolf-1929-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/christa-wolf-1929-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Wolf (1929-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CWolf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7350 lazyload\" title=\"CWolf\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CWolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"307\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CWolf.jpg 473w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/CWolf-300x194.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 473px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 473\/307;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/dec\/01\/christa-wolf\"> Christa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christa_Wolf\">Wolf<\/a>, one of the most powerful post-WWII German writers, died yesterday at age 82. \u00a0Here is the opening paragraph of perhaps her best-known novel, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cassandra-Novel-Essays-Christa-Wolf\/dp\/0374519048\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1322833719&amp;sr=8-1\">Cassandra<\/a><\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was here. This is where she stood. These stone lions looked at her; now they no longer have heads. This fortress \u2014 once impregnable, now a pile of stone \u2014 was the last thing she saw. A long-forgotten enemy demolished it, so did the centuries, sun, rain, wind. The sky is still the same, a deep blue block, high, vast. Nearrby, the giant fitted-stone walls which, today as in the past, point the way to the gate, where no trace of blood can be seen seeping out from beneath. Point the way into the darkness. Into the slaughterhouse. And alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keeping step with the story, I make my way into death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christa Wolf, one of the most powerful post-WWII German writers, died yesterday at age 82. \u00a0Here is the opening paragraph of perhaps her best-known novel, Cassandra: It was here. This is where she stood.&#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":[1108],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-christa-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349","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=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}