{"id":2388,"date":"2017-03-12T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T18:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2017-07-19T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:40:14","slug":"at-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"At the back. Madrid."},"content":{"rendered":"<poem>Alone, save the others, in the second last row from the back,<br \/>\nA modern Cathedral offers wifi and a warm welcome.<br \/>\nI discover new words while studying my translation pack.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Pew\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; a word from my childhood collecting dust: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Banco de iglesias\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>\nI choose not to like this and it&#8217;s diminutive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153banca\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pass.<br \/>\n&#8220;Blanca&#8221;: a girl I knew long ago. North of Madrid. A friend.<br \/>\nToo similar. As is Banco Santander. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the word for me.<br \/>\nI consider that there must be an equivalent, better phrase for pew.<br \/>\nEveryone else is now standing. As am I. I see<br \/>\nrow upon row of people queueing at their &#8220;bancas&#8221;.<br \/>\nFor all the modernity the acoustics aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t what they should be.<br \/>\nNeither are the windows. Neither are we.<\/p>\n<p>Perdona nuestras ofensas.<\/poem>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrislamb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4130-e1489342469572.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrislamb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_4130-e1489342469572-450x600.jpg?resize=450%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone, save the others, in the second last row from the back, A modern Cathedral offers wifi and a warm welcome. I discover new words while studying my translation pack. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Pew\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; a word from my childhood collecting dust: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Banco de iglesias\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I choose not to like this and it&#8217;s diminutive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153banca\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pass. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53QCd-Cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}