{"id":1819,"date":"2012-09-04T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T22:46:14","slug":"scenes-from-sicily-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2012\/09\/04\/scenes-from-sicily-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Sicily, Undici &#8211; Palermo Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0201_palermo_art_dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1820\" title=\"0201_palermo_art_dog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0201_palermo_art_dog-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0201_palermo_art_dog-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/0201_palermo_art_dog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While on our steamy walk around a sweltering Palermo, Kath and I kept seeing interesting, surreal (and maybe Cubist?) graffiti in various places. I&#8217;m used to the Banksy-like stuff that you find in most larger cities these days, but this was something altogether different and exciting. I couldn&#8217;t stop looking at it, and now that I&#8217;m home with photos of it, I&#8217;m still drawn to it. And a lot of it was big, taking up an entire wall.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Palermo has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianwrighttravel.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/iwt.cgi?usr=92481&amp;page=sicily.html\">pretty<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/soundofswagger.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/graffiti-de-palermo.html\">strong<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.italymag.co.uk\/italy\/sicily\/graffiti-written-witch-discovered-ancient-palermo-prison\">underground<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jhfoto\/6200122221\/\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.patch.com\/blog_posts\/graffiti-an-introduction-from-an-art-history-perspective\">movement<\/a>. Maybe it is only fitting, then, that the word <em>graffiti<\/em> actually comes from the Italian word <em>graffiato<\/em>, which is to scratch or scribble.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures from the Sicily trip can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/107529286825657502272\/albums\/5773422425950346945\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on our steamy walk around a sweltering Palermo, Kath and I kept seeing interesting, surreal (and maybe Cubist?) graffiti in various places. I&#8217;m used to the Banksy-like stuff that you find in most larger cities these days, but this was something altogether different and exciting. I couldn&#8217;t stop looking at it, and now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[152,169,162,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}