{"id":3107,"date":"2023-07-31T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T07:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:00:41","slug":"homer-texting-from-the-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"Homer texting from the islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3127\" width=\"358\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_9905-6-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cycladic villages \u2013 how is it that they never get dirty?&nbsp;&nbsp;In Athens, age drips rustily down the walls; on a Cycladic island, the white of village houses is brighter than white, beyond pigment, beyond age.  They are like sugar cubes divided by a wet knife.  Some islands are ringed by fire but not on fire; they are both dazzling and cooling. White doves tiptoe on the ledge of a white houses.&nbsp;&nbsp;Villages wind mazelike with steep stairs and plastered passages, bursts of bougainvillea and jasmine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there is the blue.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Homer were to describe it now, he might still say that wine-dark sea is agitated, full of shifting, intertwined patterns. Underwater you can see the chain of sailors\u2019 shaped phrases, one hooked to the next.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Blue that dissolves as if in a dream and blue as solid as heaven.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Homer were writing now, he might be sending postcards or texts about Ulysses\u2019 long travels. Saw the blue \u2013 unfenced.&nbsp;&nbsp;Full of monsters and simmering grudges.&nbsp;&nbsp;Blue \u2013 to die for.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycladic villages \u2013 how is it that they never get dirty?&nbsp;&nbsp;In Athens, age drips rustily down the walls; on a Cycladic island, the white of village houses is brighter than white, beyond pigment, beyond age. They are like sugar cubes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1152,1177,1308,605,1309],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blue","tag-color-theory","tag-cycladic-islands","tag-greece","tag-white"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-O7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}