{"id":6115,"date":"2010-03-04T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:32:27","slug":"das-boot-and-its-a-long-way-to-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6115","title":{"rendered":"Das Boot and It&#8217;s a Long Way to Tipperary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fun moment in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082096\/\">Das Boot<\/a><\/i>, the enlisted men sing along to a recording of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It's_a_Long_Way_to_Tipperary\">It&#8217;s a Long Way to Tipperary<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This clip is pretty complicated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Das Boot is a movie about a German WWII U-Boot crew<\/li>\n<li>the song is British and became popular during WWI amongst the soldiers.  It&#8217;s associated with WWI<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but it was also a popular song<\/li>\n<li>the song is about being homesick<\/li>\n<li>because it&#8217;s British, it&#8217;s annoying to the officer who is party-line Nazi, who clashes with the captain during the story, playing to the anti-war theme of &#8220;the people who make wars (politicians) are not the people who die in wars&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fun moment in Das Boot, the enlisted men sing along to a recording of It&#8217;s a Long Way to Tipperary This clip is pretty complicated: Das Boot is a movie about a German WWII U-Boot crew the song is British and became popular during WWI amongst the soldiers. It&#8217;s associated with WWI &#8230;but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}