{"id":3588,"date":"2019-10-29T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshworth.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2021-01-11T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:45:00","slug":"spotlight-on-the-recluses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/spotlight-on-the-recluses\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on the Recluses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, it’s perfectly easy and acceptable to tell the world all about the intimate details of your life. With just a few thumb-swipes, you can upload a photo of your new bangs, post a review of your pajamas, or alert your followers when you’ve checked-in to the dermatologist’s office. If you’re not doing such things, people might start to think you’re being anti-social, stand-offish, or even worse, an old fuddy-duddy.<\/p>\n

But rather than stress too much about my infrequent blogging, tweeting, and facebooking, I thought I might take a moment to honor some notable people who somehow pulled off the trick of making a name for themselves while still maintaining private lives that were actually private.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Emily Dickinson<\/h3>\n

1830-1886<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

You won’t find one selfie of this woman wearing a flower-crown at Coachella, yet she’s revered as one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. And she did it all while hiding from the specter of death in a Massachusetts farmhouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Howard Hughes<\/h3>\n

1905-1976<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

In his later years, this business tycoon \/ film mogul \/ master aviator eschewed the talk-show circuit and, instead, closed the black-out curtains on a Las Vegas hotel room to spend more time growing his fingernails and hiding from germs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Greta Garbo<\/h3>\n

1905-1990<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

While the other stars of the silver screen were granting interviews and showing-off their evening gowns on Oscar night, the mysterious Ms. Garbo sat at home donning a comfortable shroud of shadowy seclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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J.D. Salinger<\/h3>\n

1919-2010<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

When he wasn’t busy penning classic literature for your high-school English syllabus, this guy was holed-up in Cornish, New Hampshire filing lawsuits against anyone who dared to make him the subject of their publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Steve Ditko<\/h3>\n

1927-2018<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

The comic artist who brought us mega-heroes like Spider-man and Dr. Strange let his co-creator Stan Lee do all the talking while he remained hunched over a drawing table, shielding his life from the evil gaze of diabolical fans and sinister interviewers. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In celebration of these, and all the other publicity-shy public figures, let us forgo the applause, nod politely, then turn away and honor them with a little bit of the peace and quiet they seemed to cherish.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s hear it for these privacy pioneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,7,11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-illustrations","category-media","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}