{"id":120651,"date":"2022-06-26T05:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120651"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:01:55","slug":"hour-19-casco-viejo-panama-city-mary-pecaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-19-casco-viejo-panama-city-mary-pecaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 19 Casco Viejo, Panama City Mary Pecaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hour 19\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Casco Viejo, Panama City \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Today I walk on cobbled streets, pass<\/span><\/p>\n

facades – window frames frame <\/span><\/p>\n

frangipanis,<\/span> doorways speak of pirates past\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

missionaries and colonizers.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I might be a sympathizer<\/span><\/p>\n

so in love with history am I.\u00a0 What might<\/span><\/p>\n

be lost and what’s the cost <\/span><\/p>\n

as we gentrify?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What of Luis, un-homed in the open air<\/span><\/p>\n

behind Plaza Herrera square- this casco<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

where he studied and grew,<\/span><\/p>\n

his childhood <\/span>home – a five star condo-<\/span><\/p>\n

left to panhandle for a brew.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The bell from <\/span>Iglesia de la Merced<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

tolls telling a time when the church\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was rebuilt stone by stone. A time<\/span><\/p>\n

when pirates burned the city down.<\/span><\/p>\n

A time when Jesuits, homeless on the beach<\/span><\/p>\n

rose and built <\/span>La Campania de Jesus<\/span><\/i> –<\/span><\/p>\n

a convent to convert. Luis tells me he is Catholic.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all looking to save and be saved.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hour 19\u00a0   Casco Viejo, Panama City \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary Pecaut   Today I walk on cobbled streets, pass facades – window frames frame frangipanis, doorways speak of pirates past\u00a0 missionaries and colonizers.   I might be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120651"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124412,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120651\/revisions\/124412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}