{"id":36331,"date":"2015-08-10T01:48:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=36331"},"modified":"2016-03-06T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:02:45","slug":"john-aubrey-my-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/john-aubrey-my-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"john aubrey, my own life (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aubreys woorden lagen al die tijd, 300 jaar, te wachten totdat iemand ze wakker zou kussen. Scurrs biografie over hem is een boek uit het computertijdperk, een machine had het kunnen schrijven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John Aubrey, inventor of modern biography, pioneering archaeologist, had an irrepressible urge to record everything around him that took his attention. He was interested in everything. He is perhaps best known as the author of &#8216;Schediasmata: Brief Lives&#8217;, his collection of short biographical pieces. <\/p>\n<p>Ruth Scurr used Aubrey&#8217;s own words to create the diary he never wrote. &#8216;I thought: if only we had Aubrey&#8217;s diary, his modesty, self-effacement, attention to others would not be such a problem. No one gets crowded out of his or her own diary.&#8217; <em>John Aubrey, My own life<\/em> is a biography of a biographer that doubles as an experimental analysis of biography itself. <\/p>\n<p><!--- Een encyclopedie die zichzelf schrijft, met andere woorden, zou geweldig zijn. Sommigen willen een vakantiehuis met een priv\u00e9strandje. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Form follows data. ---><\/p>\n<p><!---Onlangs stuitte ik op het idee voor een biografie in het internettijdperk: je opent een website met pagina's, voor elke dag uit iemands leven \u00e9\u00e9n, en laat mensen die pagina met anekdotes en feiten vullen. Zo'n boek schrijft zichzelf. ---><\/p>\n<p><!---Aubrey died of an apoplexy while travelling, in June 1697.---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubreys woorden lagen al die tijd, 300 jaar, te wachten totdat iemand ze wakker zou kussen. Scurrs biografie over hem is een boek uit het computertijdperk, een machine had het kunnen schrijven. John Aubrey, inventor of modern biography, pioneering archaeologist, had an irrepressible urge to record everything around him that took his attention. He was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/john-aubrey-my-own-life\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923,1165,302,1005],"tags":[1467,562,1465,565,1470,1466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36331"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40133,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36331\/revisions\/40133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}