{"id":100,"date":"2004-09-08T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2004-09-08T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T15:46:11","slug":"dane-geld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200409\/dane-geld\/","title":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Dane-geld<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\nIt is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation<BR\/><br \/>\nTo call upon a neighbour and to say: &#8212;<BR\/><br \/>\n&#8220;We invaded you last night &#8211;we are quite prepared to fight,<BR\/><br \/>\nUnless you pay us cash to go away.&#8221;<BR\/><\/p>\n<p>And that is called asking for Dane-geld,<br \/>\nAnd the people who ask it explain<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;ve only to pay &#8217;em the Dane-geld<br \/>\nAnd then you&#8217;ll get rid of the Dane!<\/p>\n<p>It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,<br \/>\nTo puff and look important and to say: &#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.<br \/>\nWe will therefore pay you cash to go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that is called paying the Dane-geld;<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;ve proved it again and again,<br \/>\nThat if once you have paid him the Dane-geld<br \/>\nYou never get rid of the Dane.<\/p>\n<p>It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,<br \/>\nFor fear they should succumb and go astray;<br \/>\nSo when you are requested to pay up or be molested,<br \/>\nYou will find it better policy to say: &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never pay any-one Dane-geld,<br \/>\nNo matter how trifling the cost;<br \/>\nFor the end of that game is oppression and shame,<br \/>\nAnd the nation that pays it is lost!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">Rudyard Kipling<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: &#8212; &#8220;We invaded you last night &#8211;we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away.&#8221; And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}