{"id":992,"date":"2017-01-02T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=992"},"modified":"2019-09-09T00:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:55:05","slug":"john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90\/","title":{"rendered":"John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/02\/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90\">Here is the Guardian&#8217;s announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/02\/john-berger-obituary\">Guardian&#8217;s John Berger obituary <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><b>&#8220;The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied&#8230; but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.&#8221;<\/b><br \/>\nJohn Berger (1991)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the Guardian&#8217;s announcement. Guardian&#8217;s John Berger obituary &#8220;The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied&#8230; &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/john-berger-art-critic-and-author-dies-aged-90\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2148,13,17],"tags":[204,520,911,1050],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-992","7":"format-standard","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-obituaries","10":"category-politics","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-art","13":"post_tag-death","14":"post_tag-john-berger","15":"post_tag-marxist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}