{"id":1133,"date":"2008-02-03T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:58:08","slug":"impossible-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In dem Gedicht \u201eA Sli\u00adce of Wed\u00adding Cake\u201c von Robert Gra\u00adves wer\u00adden M\u00e4n\u00adner so rich\u00adtig sch\u00f6n niedergemacht:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why have such scores of love\u00adly, gifted girls<br>\nMar\u00adried impos\u00adsi\u00adble&nbsp;men?<br>\nSimp\u00adle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/self-sacrifice\">self-sacri\u00adfice<\/a> may be ruled&nbsp;out,<br>\nAnd mis\u00adsio\u00adna\u00adry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/endeavour_1\">endea\u00advour<\/a>, nine times out of&nbsp;ten.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat \u201aimpos\u00adsi\u00adble men\u2018: not mere\u00adly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/rustic_1\">rustic<\/a>,<br>\nFoul-tem\u00adpe\u00adred or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/depraved\">depra\u00adved<\/a><br>\n(Dra\u00adma\u00adtic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/foil_1\">foils<\/a> cho\u00adsen to show the&nbsp;world<br>\nHow well women behave, and always have behaved).<\/p>\n<p>Impos\u00adsi\u00adble men: idle, illiterate,<br>\nSelf-pity\u00ading, dir\u00adty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/sly\">sly<\/a>,<br>\nFor who\u00adse appearance even in City&nbsp;parks<br>\nExcu\u00adses must be made to casu\u00adal passers-by.<\/p>\n<p>Has God\u2019s sup\u00adp\u00adly of tole\u00adra\u00adble husbands<br>\nFal\u00adlen, in fact, so&nbsp;low?<br>\nOr do I always over-value woman<br>\nAt the expen\u00adse of&nbsp;man?<br>\nDo&nbsp;I?<br>\nIt might be&nbsp;so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In dem Gedicht \u201eA Sli\u00adce of Wed\u00adding Cake\u201c von Robert Gra\u00adves wer\u00adden M\u00e4n\u00adner so rich\u00adtig sch\u00f6n niedergemacht:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alg","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11391,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/11391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}