{"id":2300,"date":"2010-07-01T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:35:06","slug":"the-art-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2010\/07\/01\/the-art-thing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Art Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfFUfpmBNfg<\/p>\n<p>THE ART THING<\/p>\n<p>I never understood<br \/>\nwhat this art thing was about<br \/>\nhaving been raised among books<br \/>\ntwo three four decades old<br \/>\nwritten for children I thought<br \/>\nthe world ought to be<br \/>\na safe place<br \/>\nand then I realised the world<br \/>\nis never safe if you think it is<br \/>\nthis is where this art thing<br \/>\ncomes in<br \/>\nyou see<br \/>\n<em>you<\/em> have to make it safe<br \/>\nnobody cares how you do it<br \/>\nyou just have to make it safe<br \/>\nand it seems<br \/>\nart is a bit like a lottery<br \/>\nthere is a prize<br \/>\nand you go for the prize<br \/>\nand if you win<br \/>\npeople listen to you<br \/>\nand you make the world<br \/>\na little bit safer<br \/>\nbecause they trust you<br \/>\nnot because of what you say<br \/>\nbut because they trust you<br \/>\nyou won this prize you see?<br \/>\nits an okay system<br \/>\nexcept when<br \/>\nthe prize is not really a prize<br \/>\nbut a wall<br \/>\nto prevent you<br \/>\nfrom seeing the real prize<br \/>\nyou and everyone else<br \/>\nwhich wont be about money<br \/>\nbut something else<br \/>\nsomething everyone needs to see<br \/>\nbut somebody wont let you<br \/>\nso you have to climb the wall<br \/>\nwhile pretending<br \/>\nto streeeeetch on tiptoes<br \/>\nto reach the prize<br \/>\nand quite possibly<br \/>\nyou cannot win the prize<br \/>\nwhen you have told<br \/>\nwhat is on the other side of the wall<br \/>\nat least not for a while<br \/>\nas everyone gets used to<br \/>\nwhat is on the other side<br \/>\nand then<br \/>\nfor a while you can relax<br \/>\nif you want<br \/>\nand stay on the ground<br \/>\nand just pick at the prize<br \/>\nlike your neighbour&#8217;s apples<br \/>\nhanging over the fence<br \/>\nand its okay<br \/>\nfor a while<br \/>\nand then they become boring<br \/>\nand all the same<br \/>\nthis is where art begins<br \/>\nI now realise<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t actually have to<br \/>\neat all the apples<br \/>\nif you don&#8217;t like apples<br \/>\nits just an example<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the world ought to be \/ a safe place \/ the world \/ is never safe if \/ this is where this art thing \/ comes in \/ you have to make it safe \/ nobody cares how you do it \/ you just have to make it safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,133,290,333,1295,625],"tags":[1426,2110,725,775],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digt","category-digtere","category-english-posts","category-kunst","category-nyt","category-video","tag-art-thing","tag-humor","tag-videodigt","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}