{"id":43,"date":"2002-07-13T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2002-07-13T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=43"},"modified":"2002-07-13T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2002-07-13T13:57:06","slug":"wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Wish You Were Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to <span class=\"booktitle\">Wish You Were Here<\/span> for probably the 457th time the other day when I suddenly realized I didn&#8217;t understand it. I quote, for late arrivals from Venus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo, do you think you can tell<br \/>\nHeaven from hell,<br \/>\nBlue skies from pain?<br \/>\nCan you tell a green field<br \/>\nFrom a cold steel rail?<br \/>\nA smile from a veil?<br \/>\nDo you think you can tell?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I follow so far. But the Floyd continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid they get you to trade<br \/>\nYour heroes for ghosts?<br \/>\nHot ashes for trees?<br \/>\nHot air for a cool breeze?<br \/>\nCold comfort for change?<br \/>\nDid you exchange<br \/>\nA walk-on part in the war<br \/>\nFor a lead role in a cage?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charting this up, we have:<\/p>\n<table width=\"400\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\" height=\"126\" valign=\"top\"><b>Trade-in<\/b><br \/>\n      heroes<br \/>\n      hot ashes<br \/>\n      hot air<br \/>\n      cold comfort<br \/>\n      walk-on part in the war\n    <\/td>\n<p><\/p>\n<td width=\"200\" valign=\"top\"><b>New Item<\/b><br \/>\n      ghosts<br \/>\n      trees<br \/>\n      cool breeze<br \/>\n      change<br \/>\n      lead role in a cage\n      <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>How come I understood this the first 456 times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to Wish You Were Here for probably the 457th time the other day when I suddenly realized I didn&#8217;t understand it. I quote, for late arrivals from Venus: So, do you think you can tell Heaven from hell, Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field From a cold steel <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=43' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}