{"id":21478,"date":"2025-11-07T19:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21478"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:48:51","slug":"and-he-shall-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/and-he-shall-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"And He Shall Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read: And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Burgh \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working class boy is dazzled by Cambridge &amp; his magician, occultist &#8220;friend&#8221;. Page turner, dark academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Some people say we&#8217;re our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others&#8217; confirming gaze? If, like the tree falling in the proverbial wood, nobody is around to hear us, is our story a story at all? And when were different things to different people, what then?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Burgh \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da; Working class boy is dazzled by Cambridge &amp; his magician, occultist &#8220;friend&#8221;. Page turner, dark academia. Some people say we&#8217;re our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others&#8217; confirming gaze? If, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,660],"tags":[2026,1597],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-21478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"category-micro","8":"tag-kate-van-der-burgh","9":"tag-1597","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Aq","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21479,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions\/21479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}