{"id":3682,"date":"2014-01-05T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:26:50","slug":"europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><strong><a title=\"eu_logo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3683\" alt=\"eu_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eu_logo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Europeans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now we are in Europe let us take<br \/>To selling mushrooms by the roadside,<br \/>Broad-brimmed platefuls and uniform buttons<br \/>Plucked before dawn in the forest of birch,<br \/>The dank delicious one-legged flesh<br \/>Climbing from grave-pits as big and as deep<br \/>As the forest themselves, for it does not<br \/>Take long to establish the custom, not long<br \/>To forget the beginning, to hold up<br \/>A bucket or basket of mushrooms<br \/>And talk about always and offer a shrug<br \/>That proves our knowledge and our ignorance<br \/>Identical, proverbial, entirely<br \/>Beyond the scope of history or law,<br \/>And since we have always been here<br \/>On our fold-away chairs near the crossroads,<br \/>Hunched in black overcoats, pale as our produce,<br \/>Seeking and selling the flesh of the earth<br \/>By the handful and kilo in brown paper bags,<br \/>We cannot be other than real.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the volume &#8220;November&#8221;<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em> Sean O\u2019Brien<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}