{"id":283,"date":"2007-03-16T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/03\/16\/and-you-thought-he-made-this-stuff-up\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T00:18:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T18:48:17","slug":"and-you-thought-he-made-this-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/16\/and-you-thought-he-made-this-stuff-up\/","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought He Made This Stuff Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchettbooks.com\/terry\/\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some people say that writing dwarf songs is not hard to do, as long as you can remember how to spell &#8220;Gold,&#8221; but this is a little bit cynical. Many dwarf songs* are on the lines of &#8220;Gold, gold, gold&#8221; but it&#8217;s all in the inflection&#8211;dwarfs have thousands of words for gold, but will use any of them in an emergency, such as when they see some gold that doesn&#8217;t belong to them.<\/p>\n<p>*All right&#8211;<em>all<\/em> dwarf songs. Except for the one about Hiho.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popagandhi.com\/485\/finally-the-15th\/\">Popagandhi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What I really want to know: why is it that every single Chinese New Year song is about money? I just heard one that went \u201cqian ah qian ah qian ah qian ah qian ah qian ah qian\u201d (translated: \u201cmoney, money, money, money, money, money, money ah..\u201d, set to a tune)&#8230; for thirty minutes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett: Some people say that writing dwarf songs is not hard to do, as long as you can remember how to spell &#8220;Gold,&#8221; but this is a little bit cynical. Many dwarf songs* are on the lines of &#8220;Gold, gold, gold&#8221; but it&#8217;s all in the inflection&#8211;dwarfs have thousands of words for gold, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[7,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies-and-music","category-humour","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}