{"id":11039,"date":"2008-02-09T16:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11039"},"modified":"2008-02-09T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T22:42:41","slug":"ignorant-slut-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11039","title":{"rendered":"Ignorant Slut? [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Patti Smith hates labels, but if you had to choose a phrase to describe the U.S. singer, poet, political activist and painter, it might be . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSL0972674120080209?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=domesticNews&amp;rpc=22&amp;sp=true\">Renaissance woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.  No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,585-2343311,00.html\">that wasn&#8217;t what I had in mind at all<\/a>.  Not at all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike other large personalities, Smith is not loud or arrogant or uncommonly charming. I can sense her asceticism, her desire for purity and her resistance to compromise. But she also has an unexpectedly warm and enveloping spirit. She has been through great sorrow since first her brother, then her husband and then Robert all died, followed by the death of her pianist. As we sit there on her bedroom floor, she allows me to enter the secret room of her longing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI sometimes think I could be the saddest person in the world. Or the luckiest. Every one of them has magnified me. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got better and better as a person with each loss. I try not to go too far into being sad. It can be a dark place. But most of the time I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m filled with energy and love. When Robert died, the energy I had was from all the things I knew of him and his life. Everything in my body was so accessible through him.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, ferchristfuckingsake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patti Smith hates labels, but if you had to choose a phrase to describe the U.S. singer, poet, political activist and painter, it might be . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}