{"id":1068,"date":"2021-01-14T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:02:43","slug":"trieste-and-the-meaning-of-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/bookshelf\/trieste-and-the-meaning-of-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jan Morris<\/h2>\n<p>(Faber, 2002)<\/p>\n<p>Recommended by <a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/profiles\/andrew-hodgson\/\">Andrew Hodgson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan Morris\u2019s book on Trieste is a lyrical history of the city. It is a description of Trieste and its past; it is also an attempt to work out what Trieste means to Morris, and to understand how one\u2019s relationship with a place changes through time. It shows how to appreciate a place\u2019s sadness, \u2018the allure of lost consequence and fading power\u2019. It\u2019s a great book on place because it doesn\u2019t just tell you about a place, but shows you how to enjoy it. The best place to read it is outside a bar off the Piazza Unit\u00e0 d\u2019Italia, sipping a Campari and soda, gazing out into the Adriatic for a glimpse of the ghost of Browning\u2019s Waring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1069\" src=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Morris <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,10,7,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-1068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-bookshelf","8":"tag-landscapes","9":"tag-life-writing","10":"tag-local-history","11":"tag-memory","13":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938-286x300.jpg",286,300,true],"medium":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-287x400.jpg",287,400,true],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"atomic-blocks-featured-image":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"atomic-blocks-featured-image-wide":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false],"atomic-blocks-logo":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg",286,317,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Jan Morris <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/category\/bookshelf\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Bookshelf<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Jessica Fay","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/author\/fayj\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-287x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2021\/01\/6168.books_.origjpg-e1610622155938.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jessica Fay","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/author\/fayj\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}