{"id":197,"date":"2020-03-30T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2020-05-07T02:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T02:03:43","slug":"ca-lockdown-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"CA Lockdown &#8211; Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have Plague Poetry on my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I read an article about folks that are fleeing metropolitan centers to gypsy around in vans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/influencers-are-social-distancing-by-ignoring-lockdown-1842560076\">https:\/\/jezebel.com\/influencers-are-social-distancing-by-ignoring-lockdown-1842560076<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reminds me of the 14th century novella, The Decameron, which details the lives of 10 young men and women who flee plague-stricken Florence to the safety of a country villa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decameron2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decameron2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/pocharte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decameron2-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pocharte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decameron2-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every night, the group would gather in the evening to take turns telling stories, so after 10 nights, they had 100 tales shared among them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The great Italian director Pasolini did a trippy cinema treatment of this classic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Il Decameron (1971) ITALIAN TRAILER [HD 1080p]\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4NUXiUMklA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video that talks about Coronavirus commonalities with The Decameron:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Black Death (1350-1352): Europe after the Plague\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7iz3n3LAA8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After so many centuries, it&#8217;s interesting to see how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Plagues will come and folks will run. We&#8217;d do the same if we could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Plague Poetry on my mind. This morning I read an article about folks that are fleeing metropolitan centers to gypsy around in vans: https:\/\/jezebel.com\/influencers-are-social-distancing-by-ignoring-lockdown-1842560076 This reminds me of the 14th century novella, The Decameron, which details the lives of 10 young men and women who flee plague-stricken Florence to the safety of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[72,74,73,5,33,7,8,71,29,9,67,30,6,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pocharte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}