{"id":1539,"date":"2019-03-05T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2019-03-11T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:16:04","slug":"an-ode-to-romathe-last-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2019\/03\/an-ode-to-romathe-last-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"an ode to Roma\/the last toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to rome and my romans,<br \/>\nlet\u2019s start off the night with pasta carbonara<br \/>\nbacchus can help us with the wine pairing.<br \/>\ntoast about a thousand times to stelle e luna<br \/>\nbe careful not to drink too much (again).<\/p>\n<p>eat and chatter<br \/>\nchatter and eat<br \/>\nwhile the sun sets, casting a golden highlight over the plates<br \/>\nset down your wine glasses and dessert forks and phones<br \/>\nmake the stuffed stomach stroll to our gravel spot<\/p>\n<p>there you will find a wonder cabinet of items<br \/>\nto ensure our version of a Roman night:<br \/>\none smuggled vodka bottle, a misplaced hair tie,<br \/>\na pair of feet without shoes, and one hostage guitar.<\/p>\n<p>we strum and sing louder than the searing cicadas<br \/>\nforcing them to hum along.<\/p>\n<p>the whirlwind of acoustic covers and hearty laughs gently dim<br \/>\nas pairs are picked off by midnight\u2019s hushed lullabies.<br \/>\nsoon only a few are left to fill the wind<br \/>\nwith stories from last week or poems in the works.<\/p>\n<p>before you know it, dusk has arrived.<br \/>\nwatch as the sun comes up through your tired eyes<br \/>\nand the whispering leaves tickle our smiles.<\/p>\n<p>despite wishing with all your might,<br \/>\nwe are no longer in Roma<br \/>\nand this toast is just<br \/>\na symptom of your crazed Roman withdrawals.<br \/>\nyour own attempt to preserve<br \/>\na memory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to rome and my romans, let\u2019s start off the night with pasta carbonara bacchus can help us with the wine pairing. toast about a thousand times to stelle e luna be careful not to drink too much (again). eat and chatter chatter and eat while the sun sets, casting a golden highlight over the plates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}