{"id":1401,"date":"2006-11-12T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2006\/11\/12\/the-daily-humiliation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-23T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T22:56:01","slug":"the-daily-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/12\/the-daily-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"The daily humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&laquo; No wonder he and Sherrie might find themselves drawn to students. It&rsquo;s not as if they&rsquo;re perverts out of Dangerous Liaisons, two old vampires conspiring to suck the youth from the young. Their hearts are heat-seeking missiles drawn to whatever&rsquo;s still burning. They&rsquo;re like those old men in the Kawabata novel frequenting the brothel where they pay to curl up and sleep beside the warm bodies of young beautiful women. Christ! It&rsquo;s all so depressing Swenson thinks he might weep. Age and death &#8211; the unfairness of it, the daily humiliation of watching your power vanish just when you figure out how tu use it. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Angel-Novel-Francine-Prose\/dp\/0060953713\">Blue Angel<\/a>, a novel by Francine Prose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&laquo; No wonder he and Sherrie might find themselves drawn to students. It&rsquo;s not as if they&rsquo;re perverts out of Dangerous Liaisons, two old vampires conspiring to suck the youth from the young. Their hearts are heat-seeking missiles drawn to whatever&rsquo;s still burning. They&rsquo;re like those old men in the Kawabata novel frequenting the brothel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/12\/the-daily-humiliation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The daily humiliation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}