{"id":2260,"date":"2023-01-17T23:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2023-01-17T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:47:07","slug":"youre-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/2023\/01\/17\/youre-the-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re the Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>72 Days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking over the last few days about conversation and knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I can&#8217;t have a creative smart conversion in Italian.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a long, wanky conversation with other wankers. Topics such as who was ACDC&#8217;s best singer? Or why my father doesn&#8217;t believe in the word &#8220;mafia&#8221;. (Don&#8217;t ask, I still don&#8217;t understand this). But also about trees and colours and sounds and art and music and books and philosophy. And I love to go deep. But I don&#8217;t have a university level of Italian. I don&#8217;t have great language around all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This might be an opportunity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At first I was freaked out. I&#8217;ve actually been freaked out for a while. But then I realised: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just time for me to shut up and listen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>PS. I worked from mum&#8217;s house yesterday to keep her company, and I brought my guitar to do some practice when I finished work. So I pull out the axe and lay down some fine old Italian tunes, and mum sings along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long after, she says, &#8220;you&#8217;re not taking that with you to Italy, are you?&#8221; To which I say, &#8220;yes, I am.&#8221; And mum cries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Oh my god you&#8217;re going to embarass us. People will talk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>PPS. Ciao Gina Lollobrigida. What a joy you have been in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72 Days I&#8217;ve been thinking over the last few days about conversation and knowledge. Because: I can&#8217;t have a creative smart conversion in Italian. I love a long, wanky conversation with other wankers. Topics such as who was ACDC&#8217;s best singer? Or why my father doesn&#8217;t believe in the word &#8220;mafia&#8221;. (Don&#8217;t ask, I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581,273,590],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-self-improvement","category-sicily-2023","tag-sicily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jovraca.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}