{"id":7690,"date":"2019-11-06T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:35:17","slug":"packing-sandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"Packing sandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>July 1942: I catch myself making all sorts of minor but telling adjustments in anticipation of life in a labour camp. Last night when I was walking along the quay beside him in a pair of comfortable sandals, I suddenly thought, \u2018I shall take these sandals along as well, I can wear them instead of the heavier shoes from time to time.\u2019 What goes on in my head at moments like that?&#8230; Later, when I have survived it all, I shall write stories about these times&#8230; I shall wield this slender fountain pen as if it were a hammer, and my words will have to be so many hammer strokes with which to beat out the story of our fate and of a piece of history as it is and never was before&#8230; a few people must survive, if only to be the chroniclers of this age. I would very much like to become one of their number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Etty Hillesum,\u00a0<em>An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43<\/em>, (London: Persephone Books Ltd, 1999), inside jacket.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1942: I catch myself making all sorts of minor but telling adjustments in anticipation of life in a labour camp. Last night when I was walking along the quay beside him in a pair of comfortable sandals, I suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7690\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}