{"id":93,"date":"2007-01-22T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/01\/22\/gilgamesh-and-the-barmaid\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T14:17:55","slug":"gilgamesh-and-the-barmaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/01\/22\/gilgamesh-and-the-barmaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgamesh and the Barmaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A fragment ?from Sippar, c 1700 BCE<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tablet iii<br \/>\nThe alewife spoke to him, to Gilgamesh,<br \/>\n\u201cGilgamesh, where do you roam?<!--more--><br \/>\nYou will not find the eternal life you seek.<br \/>\nWhen the gods created mankind<br \/>\nThey appointed death for mankind,<br \/>\nKept eternal life in their own hands.<br \/>\nSo, Gilgamesh, let your stomach be full,<br \/>\nDay and night enjoy yourself in every way,<br \/>\nEvery day arrange for pleasures<br \/>\nDay and night, dance and play,<br \/>\nWear fresh clothes.<br \/>\nKeep your head washed, bathe in water,<br \/>\nCherish the child who holds your hand,<br \/>\nLet your wife enjoy herself in your lap.<br \/>\nThis is the work \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<br \/>\n<em>(tablet broken)<\/em><br \/>\nThat which the living\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fragment ?from Sippar, c 1700 BCE Tablet iii The alewife spoke to him, to Gilgamesh, \u201cGilgamesh, where do you roam? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/01\/22\/gilgamesh-and-the-barmaid\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}