{"id":173,"date":"2024-12-05T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/werner-herzogs-nihilist-penguin\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:35:17","slug":"werner-herzogs-nihilist-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/werner-herzogs-nihilist-penguin\/","title":{"rendered":"Werner Herzog\u2019s Nihilist Penguin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The natural world, as we learnt from the horrors of Grizzly Man, is not easily compared with ours. The structures we adopt for our stories \u2014 be they tragic, romantic or comedic \u2014 do not fit nature quite so tightly, and Herzog knows this. Any facts about the penguins\u2019 motivations and thought processes remain unobtainable. We view the narrative as the filmmaker builds it: through an exclusively human lens.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/24\/12\/werner-herzogs-nihilist-penguin\">kottke.org\/24\/12\/werner-herzogs-nihilist-penguin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The natural world, as we learnt from the horrors of Grizzly Man, is not easily compared with ours. The structures we adopt for our stories \u2014 be they tragic, romantic or comedic \u2014 do not fit nature quite so tightly, and Herzog knows this. Any facts about the penguins\u2019 motivations and thought processes remain unobtainable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}