{"id":228,"date":"2008-06-14T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-06-14T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T03:38:18","slug":"aphorism-of-the-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Aphorism of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>He sido para m&iacute;, disc&iacute;pulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen disc&iacute;pulo, pero un mal maestro.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"blue\">I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">(Antonio Porchia, <em>Voices<\/em>, tr. W. S. Merwin, 2003, pp. 86-7)<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, though he provides the Spanish text on the left-hand pages and mentions the Buenos Aires editions of 1943 and 1966, Merwin never gives the Spanish title of the book. Was it perhaps <em>Voces<\/em>? Thanks to the web, that&#8217;s now an easy question to answer, and the answer is yes. There is a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonioporchia.com.ar\/siteENG\/home.htm\">website<\/a> devoted to Porchia&#8217;s work, with pictures of various editions and numerous quotations, apparently English only. Is the 3rd edition of <em>Voces<\/em> missing because a copy could not be located?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sido para m&iacute;, disc&iacute;pulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen disc&iacute;pulo, pero un mal maestro. I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. (Antonio Porchia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms","category-ephemerides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}