{"id":1750,"date":"2016-02-28T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:44:19","slug":"about-the-relationship-between-carnival-and-patras-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/2016\/02\/28\/about-the-relationship-between-carnival-and-patras-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"[About the relationship between Carnival and Patras citizens]&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/02\/4327917571_108629bc2e_b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1748\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1748\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/02\/4327917571_108629bc2e_b.jpg\" alt=\"4327917571_108629bc2e_b\" width=\"448\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/02\/4327917571_108629bc2e_b-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2016\/02\/4327917571_108629bc2e_b.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8230; This would explain why every year he gets on a float and covered in badges, goes around the city with a pompous style. He has taken the bullet from a young age too. The impact of this shooting is enormous. It wedges in your memory the perception, the experience, the feeling of space, a piece of metal which shapes you for the rest of your lifetime and classifies you to a particular category of people, who mutually recognize themselves without any introductions, by a simple gaze and a nod, indicating complicity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These people detest the term &#8220;carnavalistas&#8221;. I&#8217;m not a &#8220;carnavalista&#8221; they protest. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Patras citizen and I&#8217;m plainly and a simply a carnival&#8221;. The &#8220;-istas&#8221; identify other categories. So I am just carnival, and you are my carnival too. I am your confetti and you are \u00a0mine. I am a part of your memories and the deconstructed pose in your photo album and you are in mine. I am the name of your dreams and you are the name of my life. Many happy returns!<\/p>\n<p>Konstantinos Magnis\u00a0<em>in<\/em>\u00a0Christos Stamatopoulos &#8220;2015 Patras Carnival&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; This would explain why every year he gets on a float and covered in badges, goes around the city with a pompous style. He has taken the bullet from a young age too. The impact of this shooting is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/2016\/02\/28\/about-the-relationship-between-carnival-and-patras-citizens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.upatras.gr\/palexopoulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}