{"id":15632,"date":"2023-10-10T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/worlds-apart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:28:19","slug":"worlds-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/worlds-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3fc4d5536d6f9083d40d752c92946557.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Worlds apart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by John Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sabadell, Catalonia<\/em><\/p>\n<p> In the streets and parks<br \/>West Africans drag hijacked<br \/> shopping carts, collecting scrap<br \/> to be conjured into cash.<br \/> Trinket sellers press tiny <br \/> toys to reluctant palms<br \/> for change when hard sell fails.<\/p>\n<p>Men outside a local bar,<br \/> professionally unemployed;<br \/> coarse voiced with cigarettes<br \/> and beers that persist all day<br \/> enact their usual theatrics.<br \/>An old woman, darkly dressed<br \/> appears at times to linger<br \/> on the corner like a lost soul<\/p>\n<p> but take the morning bus<br \/> and fifteen minutes north<br \/> on wealth-sprinkled hillsides<br \/> you\u2019ll chance the curious domain<br \/> of bankers, footballers, actors<br \/> anonymous in mansions upheld<br \/> by rented staff and gardeners<br \/> trimming perfect hedges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worlds apart by John Short Sabadell, Catalonia In the streets and parksWest Africans drag hijacked shopping carts, collecting scrap to be conjured into cash. Trinket sellers press&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":15623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}