{"id":21,"date":"2001-10-23T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-23T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2001\/10\/sachliche_romanze.html"},"modified":"2001-10-23T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-23T06:43:00","slug":"sachliche_romanze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2001\/10\/23\/sachliche_romanze\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachliche Romanze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to a rainy autumn day, bits of this poem lilting through my head.  As Andreas (who graciously supplied the full text &#8211; many thanks) said, not the best way to start a day, but a great poem nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Und als sie einander acht Jahre kannten<\/p>\n<p>(und man darf sagen: sie kannten sich gut),<\/p>\n<p>da kam ihre Liebe pl\u00f6tzlich abhanden.<\/p>\n<p>so wie anderen Leuten ein Stock oder Hut.<\/p>\n<p>Sie waren traurig, betrugen sich heiter,<\/p>\n<p>versuchten K\u00fcsse, als ob nichts sei,<\/p>\n<p>und sahen sich an und wu\u00dften nicht weiter.<\/p>\n<p>Da weinte sie schlie\u00dflich. Und er stand dabei.<\/p>\n<p>Vom Fenster aus konnte man Schiffen winken.<\/p>\n<p>Er sagte, es w\u00e4re schon Viertel nach Vier<\/p>\n<p>und Zeit, irgendwo Kaffee zu trinken.<\/p>\n<p>Nebenan \u00fcbte ein Mensch Klavier.<\/p>\n<p>Sie gingen ins kleinste Caf\u00e9 am Ort<\/p>\n<p>und r\u00fchrten in ihren Tassen.<\/p>\n<p>Am Abend sa\u00dfen sie immer noch dort.<\/p>\n<p>Sie sa\u00dfen allein, und sie sprachen kein Wort<\/p>\n<p>und konnten es einfach nicht fassen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Erich K\u00e4stner<\/p>\n<p>[I&#8217;ll translate later, if the mood strikes me.  If you absolutely <i>must<\/i> know what it means, <a href=\"mailto:louisa@custom-deluxe.com\">ask me nicely<\/a> and maybe I&#8217;ll do it now.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning to a rainy autumn day, bits of this poem lilting through my head. As Andreas (who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}