{"id":19434,"date":"2019-10-21T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/matter-of-constancy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:45:24","slug":"matter-of-constancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/matter-of-constancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter of Constancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author:<br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/alessia-gazzola-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"262\">\n  <strong>Alessia Gazzola<\/strong>\n  <br\/>\n<\/a>Publishing house:<br\/><strong>Longanesi<br\/><\/strong>Date of publication:<strong><br\/>21-10-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verona is not my city. And paleopathology is not my business.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, here I am. How could this happen, to me of all people?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Costanza Macall\u00e8 and on the plane that is taking me from Sicily to the city in Veneto where my sister, Antonietta, already lives, I am not traveling alone.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With me is the being I care for most in the world, sixteen pounds of delight and torment that answer to the name of Flora. My daughter is my whole world, also because it&#8217;s just me and her&#8230; I know, I know, but it&#8217;s a complicated story.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, I can do it: after all, I only have to endure one year. That&#8217;s the length of the contract with the Institute of Paleopathology in Verona, and I &#8211; who majored in Pathological Anatomy and wanted to do everything but dig up old bones, spider ancient braids and analyze centuries-old remains &#8211; have to adapt, while waiting to find my dream job in England.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, as always, life has other plans for me. So as I try to settle into this foggy, freezing Verona winter, I must also resign myself to the fact that there are choices I have been putting off for too long. And the time has come to make them.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, what does it take? It&#8217;s a matter of courage, it&#8217;s a matter of resourcefulness &#8212; and, I always tell myself, it&#8217;s a matter of Constancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verona is not my city. And paleopathology is not my business.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, here I am. How could this happen, to me of all people?<\/p>\n<p>My name is Costanza Macall\u00e8 and on the plane that is taking me from Sicily to the city in Veneto where my sister, Antonietta, already lives, I am not traveling alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,177,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alessia-gazzola-en","category-libro-en","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19437,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/19437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}