{"id":513,"date":"2007-09-29T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:45:41","slug":"to-tame-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/to-tame-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"To Tame the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grzegorz (Greg) Rybak is Polish worker currently living in Edinburgh. He stood as the <acronym title=\"Scottish Socialist Party\">SSP<\/acronym> candidate for the Leith Ward in the City of Edinburgh Council elections this year.<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SSP election leaflet in Polish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.republicancommunist.org\/i\/EL015\/photos\/Polish0001.jpg\" alt=\"SSP election leaflet in Polish\" width=\"472\" height=\"688\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSP election leaflet in Polish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>To tame the city<\/h3>\n<p>Sitting on a bicycle<br \/>\nWith the speed of the wind<br \/>\nI wend my way through the city<br \/>\nTrying to tame the new city space.<br \/>\nNew closes, and new bends in roads<br \/>\nNew monuments, bridges, houses of stone,<br \/>\nNew bus stops and brand new human faces<br \/>\nI tame them like I would tame an animal.<br \/>\nMay the city quickly remember me!<br \/>\nI only recognise its habits with difficulty.<br \/>\nI stretch out my hand and try<br \/>\nTo stroke the barriers along the road<br \/>\nShaking with trepidation.<br \/>\nSoon I will tame it &#8211; I know this without modesty<br \/>\nOr with modesty, it will tame me.<br \/>\nGrzgorz (Greg) Rybak, Edinburgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grzegorz (Greg) Rybak is Polish worker currently living in Edinburgh. He stood as the SSP candidate for the Leith Ward in the City of Edinburgh Council elections this year. To tame the city Sitting on a bicycle With the speed of the wind I wend my way through the city Trying to tame the new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8976,102],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emancipation-liberation","category-migrant-struggles","category-issue-15","tag-author-grzgorz-rybak"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":5695,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17610,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/17610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}