{"id":3055,"date":"2020-02-01T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2020-02-01T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:45:32","slug":"if-were-going-to-die-at-least-give-us-some-tits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If we\u2019re going to die, at least give us some tits\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3029 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll-580x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll-580x328.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll-940x531.jpg 940w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll-500x283.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tyll.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Swedes are besieging the city of Brno. A bit of Googling reveals the year to be 1645. Armed with pick and shovel, the travelling entertainer Tyll Ulenspiegel is trying to undermine the Swedish redoubts when the shaft collapses, plunging him and his fellow miners into utter darkness. It\u2019s difficult to establish even who is still alive and who is dead. \u201cSay something about arses,\u201d someone begs the darkness. \u201cSay something about tits. If we\u2019re going to die, at least give us some tits&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/tyll-by-daniel-kehlmann-trans-ross-benjamin-review-a-folklore-unto-himself-k0cnxhq8p\">Reading Daniel Kehlmann&#8217;s Tyll for the Times, 25 January 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedes are besieging the city of Brno. A bit of Googling reveals the year to be 1645. Armed with pick and shovel, the travelling entertainer Tyll Ulenspiegel is trying to undermine the Swedish redoubts when the shaft collapses, plunging &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=3055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617,78],"tags":[785,543,236,783,784],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","category-reviews-and-opinion","tag-europe","tag-fiction","tag-novel","tag-times","tag-wars-of-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}