{"id":267,"date":"2011-05-25T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=267"},"modified":"2011-05-25T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:35:00","slug":"davide-trames-remote-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/davide-trames-remote-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Davide Trame&#39;s &#39;Remote Life&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Remote Life<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I was for a moment called out of my ghost life<br \/>by your text message on my mobile,<br \/>I was sitting at the table watching TV<br \/>looking at a remote control there by my hand\u2026<br \/>they were four really, the remote controls,<br \/>the old one for the TV<br \/>to still switch it on and off ( and me too ),<br \/>one for the satellite, one for the DVDs<br \/>and the one for the new digital box,<br \/>then, just a bit smaller, there was my mobile,<br \/>( so they all together looked five ),<br \/>same rectangular shape, sparking off<br \/>these glimmers of digital, remote life,<br \/>like many of us remote-in-control,<br \/>numbers, figures, gestures, voices, bodies,<br \/>or just tangled and unfurling memories of them,<br \/>pushing buttons, digitizing,<br \/>in the air, in the absorbing air<br \/>that it happened<br \/>it switched us on one day<br \/>as it will switch us off.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Davide Trame<\/span> says &#8220;I am an Italian teacher of English living in Venice-Italy.<br \/>My poems have appeared in journals around the world, I think five hundred or <br \/>so.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote Life I was for a moment called out of my ghost lifeby your text message on my mobile,I was sitting at the table watching TVlooking at a remote control there by my hand\u2026they were four really, the remote controls,the old one for the TVto still switch it on and off ( and me too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}