{"id":1720,"date":"2014-01-15T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-11-23T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:16:38","slug":"gallowsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Gallowsong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let molecules race along<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> rolling their rounds of dice.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Forget fiddling, being precise.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Just ecstasy, please, all night long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>After Christian Morgenstern,\u00a0<em>Galgenlieder<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>La\u00df die Molek\u00fcle rasen,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>was sie auch zusammenknobeln!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>La\u00df das T\u00fcfteln, la\u00df das Hobeln,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>heilig halte die Ekstasen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>This is tough.\u00a0<\/em>Knobeln<em>\u00a0is to game,\u00a0<\/em>t\u00fcfteln<em>\u00a0is to do finicky work, but\u00a0<\/em>hobeln<em>\u00a0is to plane, as in carpentry. It\u2019s nonsense verse but makes sense nonetheless. This ditty is drawn from Morgenstern&#8217;s own Introduction, but did not make it into Walter Arndt&#8217;s Songs from the Gallows, which dates from a now distant epoch when even guardians of high culture allowed for a little levity from time to time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_1720\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720\"  data-item_title=\"Gallowsong\"  data-item_date=\"2014-01-15T19:30:25-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.60\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let molecules race along rolling their rounds of dice. Forget fiddling, being precise. Just ecstasy, please, all night long. After Christian Morgenstern,\u00a0Galgenlieder La\u00df die Molek\u00fcle rasen,\u00a0 was sie auch zusammenknobeln!\u00a0 La\u00df das T\u00fcfteln, la\u00df das Hobeln,\u00a0 heilig halte die Ekstasen. *** This is tough.\u00a0Knobeln\u00a0is to game,\u00a0t\u00fcfteln\u00a0is to do finicky work, but\u00a0hobeln\u00a0is to plane, as in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gallowsong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_1720\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1720\"  data-item_title=\"Gallowsong\"  data-item_date=\"2014-01-15T19:30:25-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.60\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[28,32],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-deutsch-2","tag-translation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}