{"id":8911,"date":"2010-06-03T21:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2010-06-03T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:39:48","slug":"also-sprach-zarathustra-and-peter-elliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/also-sprach-zarathustra-and-peter-elliot\/","title":{"rendered":"Also sprach Zarathustra \u2013 and Peter Elliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xPL3RT2-vtg&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xPL3RT2-vtg&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The remarkably fitting theme music for Peter Elliot\u2019s musing is the tone poem by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s philosophical novel about the death of God.<\/p>\n<p>It is more widely known, of course, as the music in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey; <\/em>it introduces a bunch of monkeys banging bones on the ground in front of a large black obelisk. Symbolic of a contemporary Anglican synod, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure which of these ideas is supposed to be the backdrop for Dean Peter\u2019s exhortations, but I suppose either would work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkably fitting theme music for Peter Elliot\u2019s musing is the tone poem by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s philosophical novel about the death of God. It is more widely known, of course, as the music in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/also-sprach-zarathustra-and-peter-elliot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,658],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-dean-peter-elliot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}