{"id":159,"date":"2005-05-04T22:17:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-05-17T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T03:46:59","slug":"mysterious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/mysterious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"mysterious people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a website devoted to them, with a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysteriouspeople.com\/Hauser1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kaspar Hauser<\/a>, Wild Child of Europe. When he was found: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was wearing a round felt peasant&#8217;s hat lined with yellow silk, an old pair of high-heeled half boots that didn&#8217;t fit, a black silk scarf, a grey cloth jacket, a linen vest, and grey cloth trousers. He was carrying a white and red checked handkerchief with the initials K.H. embroidered in red, and some rags decorated with blue and white flowers, a (possibly) German key, a small envelope containing gold dust (!), and prayer beads made of horn. He also had some printed religious texts in his pockets, including a spiritual manual entitled &#8216;The Art of Replacing Lost Time and Years Badly Spent&#8217;, a cynical title in view of what was later found out about his history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember studying this poem in German in college &#8211; I wrote out these stanzas in the notebook I was keeping at that time. The words still seem so familiar. <\/p>\n<p><em>Kaspar Hauser Lied<\/p>\n<p>F\u00c3\u00bcr Bessie Loos<\/p>\n<p>Er wahrlich liebte die Sonne, die purpurn den H\u00c3\u00bcgel hinabstieg,<br \/>\nDie Wege des Walds, den singenden Schwarzvogel<br \/>\nUnd die Freude des Gr\u00c3\u00bcns.<\/p>\n<p>Ernsthaft war sein Wohnen im Schatten des Baums<br \/>\nUnd rein sein Antlitz.<br \/>\nGott sprach eine sanfte Flamme zu seinem Herzen:<br \/>\nO Mensch! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"www.littlebluelight.com\/lblphp\/intro.php?ikey=27\" target=\"_blank\">Georg Trakl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a website devoted to them, with a story about Kaspar Hauser, Wild Child of Europe. When he was found: He was wearing a round felt peasant&#8217;s hat lined with yellow silk, an old&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}