{"id":17,"date":"2009-12-10T16:25:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-02-07T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:10:36","slug":"can-i-say-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"pLeasE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>pass the peas, please.<\/p>\n<p>no?\u00a0there aren&#8217;t any more??<\/p>\n<p>maybe that&#8217;s because\u00a0<em>conserverie berthou<\/em>, one of pont-aven&#8217;s last canneries, stopped rolling its belts sometime in the 1990&#8217;s, or so i&#8217;m told. legumes neither come nor go these days but the former factory rests alongside the <em>aven<\/em> river across from the ever-picturesque <em>bois d&#8217;amour (woods of love)<\/em>, just a few doors down from my apartment on <em>rue kerandistro. <\/em>the pea-property remained derelict until purchased by pasca <a href=\"http:\/\/pontaven.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">[www.pontaven.org]<\/a>, an american art program established here some twelve years ago by art historian\/gauguin scholar caroline boyle-turner. \u00a0although the school envisions the site for its second studio building (a glassy breathtaker designed by celebrated architect jean nouvel), it&#8217;ll take more than a few million peas to pay for such a grand project. for now, the structure keeps its same charming old form, minus the cans.\u00a0the space is currently inhabited by the school&#8217;s facilities manager, himself an inventive artist &amp; generous guy who has passed along a stack of the cannery&#8217;s abandonned\u00a0<em>etiquettes <\/em>[labels] for my amusement.\u00a0i may not be eating peas these days but i can still play with them.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27\" title=\"blog petits pois intro\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog-petits-pois-intro3.jpg\" alt=\"blog petits pois intro\" width=\"666\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog-petits-pois-intro3.jpg 666w, http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog-petits-pois-intro3-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pass the peas, please.<\/p>\n<p>no?\u00a0there aren&#8217;t any more??<\/p>\n<p>maybe that&#8217;s because\u00a0conserverie berthou, one of pont-aven&#8217;s last canneries, stopped rolling its belts sometime in the 1990&#8217;s, or so i&#8217;m told. legumes neither come nor go these days but the former factory rests alongside the aven river across from the ever-picturesque bois d&#8217;amour (woods of love), just a few [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}