{"id":11565,"date":"2023-02-13T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2023-02-15T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:35:43","slug":"four-down-95-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11565","title":{"rendered":"Four down, 95 to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her famous 1984 song, German singer-songwriter Nena sang about 99 balloons that trigger World War III.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fpu5a0Bl8eY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here is the ending of the song, along with my less-than-perfect translation:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 1.5in;\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none; font-style: italic;\">Neunundneunzig\u00a0Jahre Krieg<br \/>\nLie\u00dfen keinen Platz f\u00fcr Sieger<br \/>\nKriegsminister gibt&#8217;s nicht mehr<br \/>\nUnd auch keine D\u00fcsenfliegerHeute zieh&#8217; ich meine Runden<br \/>\nSeh die Welt in Tr\u00fcmmern liegen<br \/>\nHab &#8216;n Luftballon gefunden<br \/>\nDenk&#8217; an Dich und lass&#8217; ihn fliegen<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none; font-style: italic;\">Ninety-nine years of war<br \/>\nLeft no room for a victor<br \/>\nThere are no more war ministers<br \/>\nAlso no more fighter bombersToday as I took a stroll<br \/>\nSaw a world, ruined by war<br \/>\nThere, I just found a balloon<br \/>\nThinking of you, I let it fly\u00a0soon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>What can I say? A few more Chinese balloons over North America, a few more large-scale exchanges in Ukraine, and perhaps we&#8217;ll no longer need any war ministers anymore.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11565' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her famous 1984 song, German singer-songwriter Nena sang about 99 balloons that trigger World War III. \ufeff Here is the ending of the song, along with my less-than-perfect translation: Neunundneunzig\u00a0Jahre Krieg Lie\u00dfen keinen Platz f\u00fcr Sieger Kriegsminister gibt&#8217;s nicht mehr Und auch keine D\u00fcsenfliegerHeute zieh&#8217; ich meine Runden Seh die Welt in Tr\u00fcmmern liegen <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11565' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-history","category-music","category-politics","category-22-id","category-25-id","category-4-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11567,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11565\/revisions\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}