{"id":316,"date":"2008-10-20T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:15:29","slug":"soul-of-filking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/316","title":{"rendered":"Soul of Filking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Soul of Filking<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nAfter Fantasy.Con, at which after I stopped singing someone said, &quot;Great, now let's all cut our throats!&quot; I resolved to start writing more cheerful stuff.<br \/>\n&#8230;I think I just failed.<\/p>\n<p>TTTO &quot;Hallelujah&quot;, the Rufus Wainwright version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think there is a basic tune<br \/>\nIn ancient verse, in word and rune &#8211;<br \/>\nBut you don't really care what I am thinking.<br \/>\nAnd whether that is right or wrong<br \/>\nI hear it within every song;<br \/>\nI think that it must be the soul of filking.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYour faith was strong, but you needed skill.<br \/>\nYou came to writing with a will;<br \/>\nThe vision of its greatness was too fleeting.<br \/>\nYou sang it, but you only heard<br \/>\nA broken voice, forgotten words,<br \/>\nAnother shadow of the soul of filking.<\/p>\n<p>Might be I've heard it sung out loud<br \/>\nIn filksings, standing in the crowd;<br \/>\nThe memory's gone, just like this stuff I'm drinking.<br \/>\nI've seen the words in a lyric sheet,<br \/>\nBut the blotted paper couldn't fit<br \/>\nThe very size of all the soul of filking.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time I knew for sure<br \/>\nThat I could sing it tall and pure.<br \/>\nThat time has passed, my self esteem is weakening.<br \/>\nI remember how within the fuss<br \/>\nThe room entire screamed with us,<br \/>\nThe voices pledging to the soul of filking.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that basic tune exists;<br \/>\nBut all I've ever known is this &#8211;<br \/>\nOf true creation I have but an inkling.<br \/>\nIt's never good as I could wish;<br \/>\nI'm no Frank Hayes or Leslie Fish,<br \/>\nJust another addict to the act of filking.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soul of Filking After Fantasy.Con, at which after I stopped singing someone said, &quot;Great, now let's all cut our throats!&quot; I resolved to start writing more cheerful stuff. &#8230;I think I just failed. TTTO &quot;Hallelujah&quot;, the Rufus Wainwright version. I think there is a basic tune In ancient verse, in word and rune &#8211; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}