{"id":959,"date":"2008-12-24T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/?p=959"},"modified":"2010-01-17T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T06:39:20","slug":"schenken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/2008\/12\/24\/schenken\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/joachim_ringelnatz.jpg\" alt=\"Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934)\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-975\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/joachim_ringelnatz.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/joachim_ringelnatz-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>As a matter of fact, I don&#8217;t care two figs about all the Christmas coziness, warmth, cordiality, homelikeness, love and all that stuff. That&#8217;s why I hadn&#8217;t planned anything like a &#8220;Christmas post&#8221;. But yesterday, my mother reminded me of a beautiful poem which, due to its subject, suits Christmas time very well. So let this small literary insertion be my Christmas post then.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5>Gifting<\/h5>\r\n\r\n<p>Give gifts big or wee<br \/>\r\nYet solid alway<br \/>\r\nWhen the donee<br \/>\r\nThe presents assay<br \/>\r\nYour conscience be free.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Give free from the heart<br \/>\r\nGive a part<br \/>\r\nOf your inside<br \/>\r\nIn meaning, taste, and gusto<br \/>\r\nYour own expectation, just so,<br \/>\r\nWill richly abide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Give thoughtfully, without pelf,<br \/>\r\nKnow you yourself<br \/>\r\nThat your donation<br \/>\r\nIs self-explanation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<em>(Joachim Ringelnatz; translation by Ernest A. Seemann)<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a matter of fact, I don&#8217;t care two figs about all the Christmas coziness, warmth, cordiality, homelikeness, love and all that stuff. That&#8217;s why I hadn&#8217;t planned anything like a &#8220;Christmas post&#8221;. But yesterday, my mother reminded me of a beautiful poem which, due to its subject, suits Christmas time very well. So let [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[160,158,156,159,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}