{"id":6673,"date":"2010-07-05T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2010-07-05T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T13:03:20","slug":"messages-from-the-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/messages-from-the-metamorphosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages from &#8216;The Metamorphosis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6674\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12.jpg?resize=101%2C145\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12.jpg?w=101&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/12.jpg?resize=67%2C96&amp;ssl=1 67w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The  moral of Kafka&#8217;s short story &#8216;The Metamorphosis&#8217; eluded me for some  time. (See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Metamorphosis\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Metamorphosis<\/a> for outline) About the terror and tragedy of a man morphing into a bug and being  ostracised by others,what embedded messages are there?<\/p>\n<p>I  think it&#8217;s about one&#8217;s ability or limits of\u00a0accepting change in  oneself,<br \/>\nabout others ability and limits to accept changes in ourselves,<br \/>\nabout  discrimination  of one &#8211;<br \/>\nby oneself and others,<br \/>\nabout\u00a0speciesism.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As  one morphs on, at what point does acceptance ends,<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\nand at  what point does rejection begins?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moral of Kafka&#8217;s short story &#8216;The Metamorphosis&#8217; eluded me for some time. (See\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Metamorphosis for outline) About the terror and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[394,102],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-discrimination","tag-speciesism","wpcat-176-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}