{"id":289,"date":"2008-10-20T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=289"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:04:00","slug":"middle-earthly-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/289","title":{"rendered":"Middle-Earthly Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Middle-Earthly Lotus<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nThe whole thing about lotus flowers is how they grow in the middle of swamps and yet they're beautiful and pure and stuff.<br \/>\nOrcs&#8230; Not so much with the beautiful and pure, admittedly, but the comparison still holds water. Or at least mud.<br \/>\nTune: Maureen S. O'Brien's &quot;Barrayaran Roses&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are like the lotus<br \/>\nRising from the swamp,<br \/>\nEmerging to a life<br \/>\nSo filled with strife,<br \/>\nWe're thoughtless, dumb and damp.<br \/>\nWe were elves, and now we're tainted, soiled;<br \/>\nOrcs are Middle-Earthly lotus,<br \/>\nBorn to toil.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe are like the lotus;<br \/>\nNo choice but to grow.<br \/>\nOur own comrades kill us,<br \/>\nBut they'll shield us<br \/>\nWhen the good guys show.<br \/>\nWe were made to be the Evil's pawns;<br \/>\nOrcs are Middle-Earthly lotus,<br \/>\nMade in scorn.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-Earthly lotus,<br \/>\nStinking, foul and gross.<br \/>\nWe die by the thousands<br \/>\nAnd none think it a loss.<br \/>\nWe were made for slaughter<br \/>\nAnd death's our only trade.<br \/>\nBut we'll still be around<br \/>\nWhen Elves all fade.<\/p>\n<p>We are like the lotus,<br \/>\nBorn within the muck.<br \/>\nShapeless, stained and broken;<br \/>\nWe were taken<br \/>\nBy our own bad luck.<br \/>\nWe never betray and never lie;<br \/>\nOrcs are Middle-Earthly lotus,<br \/>\nBorn to die. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-Earthly Lotus The whole thing about lotus flowers is how they grow in the middle of swamps and yet they're beautiful and pure and stuff. Orcs&#8230; Not so much with the beautiful and pure, admittedly, but the comparison still holds water. Or at least mud. Tune: Maureen S. O'Brien's &quot;Barrayaran Roses&quot; We are like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,44],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}