{"id":2170,"date":"2025-12-18T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:34:11","slug":"thought-for-the-day-for-december-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/thought-for-the-day-for-december-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day for December 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t stop thinking about the effect of reading L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai has had on me.<\/p>\n<p>He won the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature. Susan Sontag described him as the<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungarian master of the apocalypse.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t write <em>about<\/em> apocalypse; he makes<\/p>\n<p>you feel it through his writing. His writing is like no other. You can get an idea of<\/p>\n<p>it by reading his speech in accepting the prize. Here is the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2025\/krasznahorkai\/speech\/\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai\u00a0\u2013 Banquet speech &#8211; NobelPrize.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t stop thinking about the effect of reading L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai has had on me. He won the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature. Susan Sontag described him as the &#8220;Hungarian master of the apocalypse.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t write about apocalypse; he makes you feel it through his writing. His writing is like no other. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}