{"id":1596,"date":"2019-11-01T01:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-10-08T01:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T01:53:20","slug":"knowing-people-by-kamayani-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/11\/01\/knowing-people-by-kamayani-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing People by Kamayani Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Kamayani Sharma is a media history researcher and writer on visual culture. She lives in New Delhi and writes most of her poetry in the metro. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Knowing People<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the profound pleasures of reading <br>\nis the odd recollection of someone <br>\nwhom you vaguely know in a distant <br>\ntwo-streets-down-neighbourly way, <br>\nas a fuzzy figure with a random <br>\nattribute or two. It could be something <br>\nas bland as what they studied in college <br>\nor what happened to their marriage. <br>\nOr it could be <br>\nsome incredibly accurate detail <br>\nabout their private life <br>\nlike what they were eating on the night they died <br>\nor what the afternoon sunlight looked like <br>\nlancing through their bedroom pane <br>\nand fanning out by the window <br>\ninto a dust-filled geometric design <br>\na shade lighter than the wall. <br>\nAnd the completely comfortable realisation, <br>\na second later, that this acquaintance <br>\nis a fictional character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamayani Sharma is a media history researcher and writer on visual culture. She lives in New Delhi and writes most of her poetry in the metro. Knowing People One of the profound pleasures of reading is the odd recollection of someone whom you vaguely know in a distant two-streets-down-neighbourly way, as a fuzzy figure with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/11\/01\/knowing-people-by-kamayani-sharma\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-pK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}