{"id":767,"date":"2009-11-18T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T16:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-03-14T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T00:50:52","slug":"spin-the-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/767","title":{"rendered":"Spin the Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Spin the Straw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A translation of my own song, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/706\">\u05d8\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05d1\u05df<\/a>. TTTO &quot;\u05d8\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e6\u05de\u05e8&quot;, itself a translation to Hebrew of a French song called &quot;File la Laine&quot;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In your room atop the tower, you have sat and spun for years.<br \/>\nBeggars know the tale that happened, it's the gossip of the peers.<br \/>\nYou still sit beside the window, and you spin well as you can,<br \/>\nWaiting for the King to visit, waiting for your hopes to end.<\/p>\n<p>Spin the straw finely, dross into gold.<br \/>\nSpin, the King ordered, and you have been told<br \/>\nThat gold's very precious, and gold's what you earn.<br \/>\nSpin, for tomorrow, the King will return.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe dwarves will never come again, you really shouldn't even try.<br \/>\nEvery single dwarf will know you for a thief who's telling lies.<br \/>\nAnd for what? The price denied him you yourself will never see.<br \/>\nYour son lives beside the King; You're in the tower by the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Spin the straw finely, dross into gold.<br \/>\nSpin, the King ordered, and you have been told:<br \/>\n&quot;If you cannot make it, make sure that you learn!&quot;<br \/>\nSpin, for tomorrow, the King will return.<\/p>\n<p>War or peace or feast or famine, all those rumors false or true,<br \/>\nYou're a prisoner, and all these never meant a thing to you.<br \/>\nYou're a Queen, by law and trapping, but you're wishing all the same<br \/>\nFor the King to come tomorrow, for if not, will come the flame.<\/p>\n<p>Spin the straw finely, dross into gold.<br \/>\nSpin, the King ordered, and you have been told<br \/>\nThat gold's very precious, and gold doesn't burn&#8230;<br \/>\nSpin, for tomorrow, the King will return.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spin the Straw A translation of my own song, \u05d8\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05d1\u05df. TTTO &quot;\u05d8\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e6\u05de\u05e8&quot;, itself a translation to Hebrew of a French song called &quot;File la Laine&quot;. In your room atop the tower, you have sat and spun for years. Beggars know the tale that happened, it's the gossip of the peers. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,116,41,7],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}