{"id":106,"date":"2007-10-03T03:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T09:45:53","slug":"confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/106","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetchells.com\/notebook\/october-2007\/confirmation\/\">Tim Etchells<\/a> writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/letters\/book\">Letters 2004-2006<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The desperate dryness and bureaucracy of the responses from Buckingham Palace through the Houses of Parliament contain a kind of residual melancholy, with the entities compelled by law to respond to a request that is effectively meaningless. I think what&#8217;s beautiful about his work is the utter blankness of the statements or questions he employs &#8211; there&#8217;s a kind of monosyllabic theatre to them, which seems far from the extended or baroque forms of letter-writing, video and telephone pranksterism we&#8217;re more or less drowning in these days&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timetchells.com\/notebook\/october-2007\/confirmation\/\">read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Etchells writes about Letters 2004-2006: &#8230;The desperate dryness and bureaucracy of the responses from Buckingham Palace through the Houses of Parliament contain a kind of residual melancholy, with the entities compelled by law to respond to a request that is effectively meaningless. I think what&#8217;s beautiful about his work is the utter blankness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-output","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}