{"id":10389,"date":"2026-06-30T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:53:15","slug":"praettig-the-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/06\/30\/praettig-the-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Pr\u00e6ttig: the Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this piled up list of songs I want to play you, and good movies to watch. <\/p>\n<p>But this one is the one I choose for you first among them all. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gbe1COdloVU\">Unfinished Sky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the lyrics to it go:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ring the bells that still can ring<\/p>\n<p>forget your perfect offering<\/p>\n<p>There is a crack, a crack in everything<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s how the light gets in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Oh. One more thing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a comment down in the comment section that notes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; really conveyed the sadness about (what is) happening in the so-called civilized countries&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is, in one sense, a ludicrously tiny piece of the truth of this piece.<\/p>\n<p>In another sense, it is precisely the most Noble and Uncivilized Truth of it. <\/p>\n<p>You say to me, you fool, anarchy inevitably means a descent into violence. <\/p>\n<p>And I remind you tactfully that the very definition of a governing State is that which seeks to <em>enforce a total monopoly on violence<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this piled up list of songs I want to play you, and good movies to watch. But this one is the one I choose for you first among them all. Unfinished Sky Some of the lyrics to it go: Ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10395,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}