{"id":2042,"date":"2019-05-26T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2019-05-26T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:14:46","slug":"kafka-a-report-to-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/26\/kafka-a-report-to-the-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kafka &#8211; A report to the Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading Kafka in Hebrew, probably for the 30th time or so and encountered a quote which I like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No, I didn\u2019t want freedom. Only a way out\u2014to the right or left or anywhere at all. I made no other demands, even if the way out should also be only an illusion. The demand was small; the disappointment would not be any greater\u2014to move on further, to move on further! Only not to stand still with arms raised, pressed against a crate wall.<\/p><cite>Kafka, A report to the Academy <br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Translation is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnstoniatexts.x10host.com\/kafka\/reportforacademyhtml.html\">Kafka English repository <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous sentence discussed how people see Freedom and yearn it, while the Ape is not looking for freedom, just a way out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it quite relevant to our daily lives. We always love to use the word &#8220;Freedom&#8221;. A few years back I was in Phnom Penh chatting with friends and talking about freedom and human rights in Japan, when my friend said in an almost angry voice &#8220;you have no idea what you are talking about&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We always seek freedom and talk about it, but are we ever &#8220;Free&#8221;?  Shouldn&#8217;t we always look for a way?  A way to lead us to a better place, a way-out from a bad place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Kafka in Hebrew, probably for the 30th time or so and encountered a quote which I like. No, I didn\u2019t want freedom. Only a way out\u2014to the right or left or anywhere at all. I made no other demands, even if the way out should also be only an illusion. The demand was small; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/26\/kafka-a-report-to-the-academy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kafka &#8211; A report to the Academy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}