{"id":680,"date":"2009-07-13T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T09:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photogeisha.org\/?p=680"},"modified":"2017-10-14T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:44:36","slug":"saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"SAIGON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualche volta ho nostalgia di Saigon.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019aria appiccicosa, il ventilatore del Capitano Willard,\u00a0 il fiume ininterrotto di biciclette e scooter, le ragazze bardate in lotta perenne contro il sole, quell\u2019atmosfera unica che ti fa sentire al centro della storia, come la stella gialla su fondo rosso.<\/p>\n<p>I mercati, i cyclo, gli improvvisi acquazzoni tropicali, i cacciatori televisivi sul Saigon river, la terrazza del Rex, gli incontri che segnano il corso di una vita.<\/p>\n<p>Il Pho, il nuoc mam , il ga nuong, i goi cuon, e le altre delizie di una cucina semplice, troppo spesso etichettata con la discutibile definizione di franco-vietnamita.<\/p>\n<p>A volte \u00e8 una nostalgia dolce fatta di favolosi giochi di memoria, in altre circostanze, invece, \u00e8 fredda e dolorosa, come una mano sfortunata di poker al tavolo della vita.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><strong><br \/>\nEnglish<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #722d03;\">Sometimes I miss Saigon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #722d03;\">The damp air, the Captain Willard looking at the ceiling fan, thousands of scooters and bicycles lost in a never-ending traffic jam, the girls completely covered fighting against the sun, an amazing feeling of being in the centre of history, like the yellow star on a red field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #722d03;\">The markets, the cycle rickshaws, the tropical rainstorms, the TV hunters on the Saigon river, the Rex terrace, the encounters that change your life forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #722d03;\">Pho, nuoc mam , ga nuong,\u00a0 goi cuon and other\u00a0 delicious gifts. A simple cuisine, too often just labeled with a generic name of\u00a0 French-Vietnamese.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #722d03;\"><br \/>\nSometimes it\u2019s a sweet nostalgia, a fabulous d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Whereas at another time, it\u2019s a cold and painful sensation that squeeze my heart, like being beaten by life on an unlucky poker hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Incensato-insensato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8970\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Incensato-insensato.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Incensato-insensato.jpg 500w, https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/wp-content\/uploads\/Incensato-insensato-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualche volta ho nostalgia di Saigon. L\u2019aria appiccicosa, il ventilatore del Capitano Willard,\u00a0 il fiume ininterrotto di biciclette e scooter, le ragazze bardate in lotta perenne contro il sole, quell\u2019atmosfera unica che ti fa sentire al centro della storia, come la stella gialla su fondo rosso. I mercati, i cyclo, gli improvvisi acquazzoni tropicali, i&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/?p=680\" class=\"gdlr-button with-border excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[5757,6803,11946,11961,13501,16909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}