{"id":371520,"date":"2019-01-16T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/lets-start\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:53:23","slug":"lets-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/lets-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so we leave.<br\/>With Ithaca in our minds and the somewhat worn-out shoes of those who have been on the road for a while already. <br\/>We leave to know, we return to tell. <br\/>We leave without fears, except those that the heart can take in. <br\/>In the hope that the journey will be long, because rich, it already is in the beginning.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When you set out for Ithaca <br\/>you must hope the road will be long, <br\/>fertile in adventure and experience. <br\/>Lestrigons and Cyclopes <br\/>or the fury of Neptune, fear not, <br\/>this will not be the kind of encounters <br\/>if thought remains high and a firm <br\/>feeling guides your spirit and body. <br\/>In Cyclopes and Lestrigons, no certainly, <br\/>nor in the irate Neptune you will run into <br\/>if you do not bring them in <br\/>if your soul does not set them against you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You must wish yourself a long road. <br\/>May the summer mornings be many <br\/>when in the harbors &#8212; at last and with what joy &#8212; <br\/>you will touch land you for the first time: <br\/>in the Phoenician emporiums linger and buy <br\/>mother-of-pearls corals ebony and ambers <br\/>all fine merchandise, even perfumes <br\/>penetrating perfumes of all sorts;<br\/>as many intoxicating scents as you can, <br\/>go to many Egyptian cities <br\/>learn a quantity of things from the learned<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Always you must have Ithaca in mind &#8211; <br\/>reaching it be the constant thought. <br\/>Above all, do not hurry the journey; <br\/>make it last long, for years, and as an old man <br\/>set foot on the island, you, rich <br\/>of the treasures accumulated on the way <br\/>without expecting riches from Ithaca. <br\/>Ithaca gave you the good trip, <br\/>without her you would never have set <br\/>out: what else do you expect?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And if you find it poor, that does not mean that Ithaca will have failed you. <br\/>Made wise now, with all your experience on you <br\/>already you will have understood what Ithaca means.<br\/><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ITHACA [Constantino Kavafis, 1911]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We leave to know we come back to tell. We set out without fear, wearing the worn-out shoes of those who have been on the road for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tracks":0,"wds_primary__dg_original-language":0,"wds_primary__geo-map":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[796],"tags":[],"tracks":[1171],"_dg_original-language":[1039],"_geo-map":[1001],"class_list":["post-371520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-block-notes","tracks-inspired","_dg_original-language-italian","_geo-map-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371520"},{"taxonomy":"tracks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tracks?post=371520"},{"taxonomy":"_dg_original-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_dg_original-language?post=371520"},{"taxonomy":"_geo-map","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_geo-map?post=371520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}