{"id":10962,"date":"2011-02-02T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/what-song-did-the-sirens-sing-and-in-what-key-2\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T06:04:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:04:54","slug":"what-song-did-the-sirens-sing-and-in-what-key-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/what-song-did-the-sirens-sing-and-in-what-key-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Song Did the Sirens Sing and in What Key?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e2393305970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ulysses and sirens\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e2393305970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e2393305970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Ulysses and sirens\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ulysses had himself bound to the mast and the ears of his sailors plugged with wax lest the&#0160;ravishing strains of the sea-nymphs&#39; song reach their ears and cause them to cast themselves into the sea and into their doom.&#0160; But what song did the Sirens sing, and in what key?&#0160; Were their tresses of golden hue? And how long were they?&#0160; Were the nymphs &#0160;equipped with special nautical brassieres to protect their tender nipples from rude contact with jelly fish and such?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One cannot sing a song without singing some definite song in some definite key commencing at some definite time and ending at some later definite time.&#0160; But you understand the story of Ulysses and the Sirens and you are now thinking about the song they sang.&#0160; But what sort of object is that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulysses had himself bound to the mast and the ears of his sailors plugged with wax lest the&#0160;ravishing strains of the sea-nymphs&#39; song reach their ears and cause them to cast themselves into the sea and into their doom.&#0160; But what song did the Sirens sing, and in what key?&#0160; Were their tresses of golden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/what-song-did-the-sirens-sing-and-in-what-key-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Song Did the Sirens Sing and in What Key?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intentionality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}