{"id":2427,"date":"2009-11-14T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2009-11-14T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:25:04","slug":"lists-creativity-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/lists-creativity-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Lists, creativity and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can&#8217;t be realistically completed?<\/p>\n<p>Eco: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That&#8217;s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It&#8217;s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don&#8217;t want to die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,druck-659577,00.html\">SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; Druckversion &#8211; SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: &#8216;We Like Lists Because We Don&#8217;t Want to Die&#8217; &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8211; International<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can&#8217;t be realistically completed? Eco: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That&#8217;s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It&#8217;s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don&#8217;t want to die. via SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; Druckversion &#8211; SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: &#8216;We Like Lists Because We Don&#8217;t Want to Die&#8217; &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8211; International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-D9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}