{"id":585,"date":"2010-08-27T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-09-02T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:26:43","slug":"au-revoir-petits-pois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"au revoir petits pois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>someone just asked <em>what&#8217;s up with the peas?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>as i formally swear off the peas,<\/p>\n<p>i once more offer the post that introduced them:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.3; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><a style=\"color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Permanent Link to pLeasE\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/?p=17\">can i say peas?<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">pass the peas, please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">no?\u00a0there aren\u2019t any more??<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">maybe that\u2019s because\u00a0<em>conserverie berthou<\/em>, one of pont-aven\u2019s last canneries, stopped rolling its belts sometime in the 1990\u2019s, or so i\u2019m told. legumes neither come nor go these days but the former factory rests alongside the\u00a0<em>aven<\/em> river across from the ever-picturesque\u00a0<em>bois d\u2019amour (woods of love)<\/em>, just a few doors down from my apartment on\u00a0<em>rue kerandistro. <\/em>the pea-property remained derelict until purchased by pasca\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666666; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" 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\u2019ll 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\u2019s facilities manager, himself an inventive artist &amp; generous guy who has passed along a stack of the cannery\u2019s abandonned\u00a0<em>etiquettes <\/em>[labels] for my amusement.\u00a0i may not be eating peas these days but i can still play with them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"_blog-petits-pois-intro\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/blog-petits-pois-intro.jpg\" alt=\"_blog-petits-pois-intro\" width=\"666\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/blog-petits-pois-intro.jpg 666w, http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/blog-petits-pois-intro-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>someone just asked what&#8217;s up with the peas?<\/p>\n<p>as i formally swear off the peas,<\/p>\n<p>i once more offer the post that introduced them:<\/p>\n<p>can i say peas?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">pass the peas, please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px;\">no?\u00a0there aren\u2019t any more??<\/p>\n<p [...] \n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/585"}],"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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaferreira.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}