{"id":47784,"date":"2021-06-16T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/samudra\/endquote-4"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:53:15","slug":"endquote-4","status":"publish","type":"samudra","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/samudra\/endquote-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Endquote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Song of the Istanbul Hamsi Fishermen<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh I am a fisherman<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and I fish in Emirgan<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and I haul the mighty hamsi from the deep<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I fish there come what may<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and they seldom get away<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and the ones I bring ashore I always keep.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peep in my yoghurt pot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve caught a lot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> although, with cig in mouth, I try to look blas\u00e9<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I never show delight<\/em><br \/>\n<em> even when my line is tight<\/em><br \/>\n<em> as if \u0091eight at once&#8217; just happened every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh the hamsi he is strong<\/em><br \/>\n<em> several centimetres long<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and he wriggles like a devil to be free<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but he knows he&#8217;s had his lot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> when I slip him in my pot<\/em><br \/>\n<em> for he has a dinner-date at home with me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So it&#8217;s home at evening&#8217;s chill<\/em><br \/>\n<em> to Reshitpasha up the hill<\/em><br \/>\n<em> with my hamsi pot a-bobbing on my knee<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I&#8217;m not a layabout<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and the bus is crowded out<\/em><br \/>\n<em> so why does no-one come and sit near me? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8211; Hugh Mitchell<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(Translator&#8217;s note: \u0091Hamsi&#8217; is the Turkish word for \u0091anchovy&#8217;.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song of the Istanbul Hamsi Fishermen Oh I am a fisherman and I fish in Emirgan and I haul the mighty hamsi from the deep I fish there come what may and they seldom get away and the ones I bring ashore I always keep. Peep in my yoghurt pot and you&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"region":[],"source":[],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"samudra_category":[5337],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/samudra\/47784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/samudra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/samudra"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"samudra_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/samudra_category?post=47784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}