{"id":8058,"date":"2021-02-14T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:31:51","slug":"oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8058","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh, what a tangled web we weave &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8230;when first we practice to deceive!&#8221;<\/em> (Sir Walter Scott, 1808)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Carol King to &#8220;Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8221; is not as far as one would think. In the same year as <em>Tapestry<\/em>, &#8220;Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8221; released their  second studio album, <em>Tarkus<\/em>, from which the following track titled &#8220;Mass&#8221; is pulled. And, it too, lends itself to an extended metaphor of the power of the weave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The song&#8217;s relevance on this, the day after Trump got a second (and expected) reprieve in the Senate in the wake of his second impeachment is obvious. To emphasise my point, I have transcribed the lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer - Mass\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8vQ_7R5qN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Mass&#8221;, Keith Emerson &amp; Greg Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Mass<\/strong> - Emerson Lake &amp; Palmer (<em>Tarkus<\/em>,1971)\n\nThe preacher said a prayer\nSave every single hair on his head\nHe's dead\n\nThe minister of hate had just arrived too late to be spared\nWho cared?\nThe weaver in the web that he made\n\nThe pilgrim wandered in\nCommiting every sin that he could\nSo good\n\nThe cardinal of grief was set in his belief he'd be saved\nFrom the grave\nThe weaver in the web that he made\n\nThe high priest took a blade\nTo bless the ones that prayed\nAnd all obeyed\n\nThe messenger of fear is slowly growing, nearer to the time\nA sign\nThe weaver in the web that he made\n\nA bishops rings a bell\nA cloak of darkness fell across the ground\nWithout a sound\n\nThe silent choir sing and in their silence\nBring jaded sound, harmonic ground\nThe weaver in the web that he made\n\n\n- <em>\"Mass\" - music and lyrics by Keith Emerson &amp; Greg Lake <\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when first we practice to deceive!&#8221; (Sir Walter Scott, 1808) From Carol King to &#8220;Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8221; is not as far as one would think. In the same year as Tapestry, &#8220;Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8221; released their second studio album, Tarkus, from which the following track titled &#8220;Mass&#8221; is pulled. And, it too, lends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Oh, what a tangled web we weave &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-emerson-lake-palmer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}