{"id":151,"date":"2003-03-25T00:21:33","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T08:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=151"},"modified":"2003-03-25T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2003-03-25T08:21:33","slug":"91334168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/91334168\/","title":{"rendered":"91334168"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has known war for thousands of years.  This account is from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.humanistictexts.org\/gilgamesh.htm\">Sin-leqe-unnini<br \/>\n<\/A>, the Mesopotamian story of Gilgamesh, one of the legendary kings of Uruk who lived between 2800 and 2500 BCE.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><PRE><br \/>\n[Why (?)] have you exerted yourself? What have you achieved (?)?<br \/>\nYou have made yourself weary for lack of sleep,<br \/>\nYou only fill your flesh with grief,<br \/>\nYou only bring the distant days (of reckoning) closer.<br \/>\nMankind&#8217;s fame is cut down like reeds in a reed-bed.<br \/>\nA fine young man, a fine girl,<br \/>\n[                          ] of Death.<br \/>\nNobody sees Death,<br \/>\nNobody sees the face of Death,<br \/>\nNobody hears the voice of Death.<br \/>\nSavage Death just cuts mankind down.<br \/>\nSometimes we build a house, sometimes we make a nest,<br \/>\nBut then brothers divide it upon inheritance.<br \/>\nSometimes there is hostility in [the land],<br \/>\nBut then the river rises and brings flood-water.<br \/>\nDragonflies drift on the river,<br \/>\nTheir faces look upon the face of the Sun,<br \/>\n(But then) suddenly there is nothing.<br \/>\n<\/PRE><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Courtesy of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.humanistictexts.org\/ \">humanistictexts.org<\/A> and translated by Stephanie Dalley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has known war for thousands of years. This account is from Sin-leqe-unnini , the Mesopotamian story of Gilgamesh, one of the legendary kings of Uruk who lived between 2800 and 2500 BCE. [Why (?)] have you exerted yourself? What have you achieved (?)? You have made yourself weary for lack of sleep, You only fill your flesh with grief, You only bring the distant days (of reckoning) closer. Mankind&#8217;s fame is cut down like reeds in a reed-bed. A fine young man, a fine girl, [ ] of Death. Nobody sees Death, Nobody sees the face of Death, Nobody &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-91334168","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}