{"id":72,"date":"2001-10-02T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2001-10-02T23:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/10\/02\/72.html"},"modified":"2001-10-02T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2001-10-02T23:02:58","slug":"games-without-frontiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/10\/02\/games-without-frontiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Without Frontiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Gabriel's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/gunther.simplenet.com\/v\/data\/gameswit.htm\">Games Without Frontiers<\/a>\" came on while I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.launch.com\/\">Launchcast<\/a>, and I thought, <i>What exactly is the deal with that song, anyway?  The \"Adolf\" part makes it sound like it's a metaphor for war, with international leaders as kids playing games at the beach, but who are all the other names?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(This is a step up from my previous question about the song, which was, <i>What the hell does \"She's .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. so frumpy-haired\" mean?<\/i>  The repeated background phrase is really <i>jeux sans frontieres<\/i>&#8212;\"games without frontiers\" in French.)<\/p>\n<p>The Web to rescue once again.  Turns out that <cite>It's a Knockout<\/cite> was a silly British game show in the 1970s, and there was an international European version called <cite>Jeux Sans Frontieres.<\/cite>  Amazon UK has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/feature\/-\/100832\/\">interview with Stuart Hall<\/a>, the host of the show, with a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004WZZS\/\">a best-of video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So the song might still be a metaphor for war, but if so, it's a much more concrete one than I'd thought.<\/p>\n<p>Did everyone but me know this already?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gabriel&#8217;s &#8220;Games Without Frontiers&#8221; came on while I was listening to Launchcast, and I thought, What exactly is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}