{"id":723,"date":"2004-11-03T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=723"},"modified":"2004-11-03T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T18:48:33","slug":"the-hollow-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/11\/03\/the-hollow-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollow Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Water&#8217;s <i>Perfect Sense Part I<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The monkey sat on a pile of stones<br \/>\nAnd stared at the broken bone in his hand<br \/>\nAnd the stains of a Viennese quartet<br \/>\nRang out across the land<br \/>\nThe monkey looked up at the stars<br \/>\nAnd thought to himself<br \/>\nMemory is a stranger<br \/>\nHistory is for fools<br \/>\nAnd he cleaned his hands<br \/>\nIn a pool of holy writing<br \/>\nTurned his back on the garden<br \/>\nAnd set out for the nearest town<br \/>\nHold on hold on soldier<br \/>\nWhen you add it all up<br \/>\nThe tears and the marrowbone<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an ounce of gold<br \/>\nAnd an ounce of pride in each ledger<br \/>\nAnd the Germans killed the Jews<br \/>\nAnd the Jews killed the Arabs<br \/>\nAnd the Arabs killed the hostages<br \/>\nAnd that is the news<br \/>\nAnd is it any wonder<br \/>\nThat the monkey&#8217;s confused<br \/>\nHe said Mama Mama<br \/>\nThe President&#8217;s a fool<br \/>\nWhy do I have to keep reading<br \/>\nThese technical manuals<br \/>\nAnd the joint chiefs of staff<br \/>\nAnd the brokers on Wall Street said<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t make us laugh<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a smart kid<br \/>\nTime is linear<br \/>\nMemory is a stranger<br \/>\nHistory is for fools<br \/>\nMan is a tool in the hands<br \/>\nOf the great God Almighty<br \/>\nAnd they gave him command<br \/>\nOf a nuclear submarine<br \/>\nAnd sent him back in search of<br \/>\nThe Garden of Eden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Water&#8217;s Perfect Sense Part I: The monkey sat on a pile of stones And stared at the broken bone in his hand And the stains of a Viennese quartet Rang out across the land The monkey looked up at the stars And thought to himself Memory is a stranger History is for fools And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/11\/03\/the-hollow-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hollow Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}