{"id":287,"date":"2008-10-20T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:07:19","slug":"pushing-the-message-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"Pushing the Message On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Pushing the Message On<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nIt figures that the only Pratchett filk I have written to date is 1. serious-bordering-on-OSE and 2. incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't read a certain Discworld novel (&quot;Going Postal&quot;, as it happens &#8211; and if you like Pratchett and haven't read it yet, READ IT).<br \/>\nAlso, it figures that the people this song relates to are basically the Discworld's equivalent of network programmers. Heh.<br \/>\nTune: Jordin Kare's &quot;Pushing the Speed of Light&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now the Grand Trunk stretches across the land<br \/>\nPushing the message on.<br \/>\nAnd the towers need every working hand<br \/>\nTo push the message on.<br \/>\nAnd you're far too young, and you're far too bright,<br \/>\nBut it's far away and the pay's all right,<br \/>\nSo you find yourself spending endless nights<br \/>\nPushing the message on.<\/p>\n<p>And you've left behind you your childhood's home<br \/>\nTo direct the messages' restless roam<br \/>\nAs you're pushing the message on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTrue clacksmen do their work alone,<br \/>\nPushing the message on.<br \/>\nUp in the tower, you're on your own<br \/>\nAs you push the message on.<br \/>\nYou are always there, whether well or sick,<br \/>\nAnd your eyes grow sharp and your hands turn quick<br \/>\nTill your heart beats time to the shutters' click<br \/>\nAs they push the message on.<\/p>\n<p>And the shutters can get stuck or break<br \/>\nAs they're pushing the message on.<br \/>\nAnd a minute's fix is all it takes<br \/>\nTo keep pushing the message on.<br \/>\nSo you climb the tower up and high<br \/>\nUntil your hands can reach the sky<br \/>\nAnd you fix that shutter on the fly<br \/>\nTo push the message on.<\/p>\n<p>But the rope was weak; you stayed up too long<br \/>\nTrying to push the message on.<br \/>\nThe winds that blow there are much too strong<br \/>\nTo keep pushing the message on.<br \/>\nTheir wails are like a siren call,<br \/>\nAnd your rope goes snap there against the wall.<br \/>\nAnd you know you won't survive this fall<br \/>\nTo push the message on.<\/p>\n<p>But the other towers saw the warning flame<br \/>\nThat pushed the message on.<br \/>\nThe other clacksmen know your name<br \/>\nAnd they push your message on.<br \/>\nYou might be deceased, but you're never dead<br \/>\nWhile your name is still in the Overhead<br \/>\nAnd it's sent to the towers on ahead,<br \/>\nThat push the message on.<\/p>\n<p>It may be a while more you'll need to roam<br \/>\nBut your soul is being Sent Back Home<br \/>\nAnd it pushes the message on. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing the Message On It figures that the only Pratchett filk I have written to date is 1. serious-bordering-on-OSE and 2. incomprehensible to anyone who hadn't read a certain Discworld novel (&quot;Going Postal&quot;, as it happens &#8211; and if you like Pratchett and haven't read it yet, READ IT). Also, it figures that the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,53],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}