{"id":239482,"date":"2025-06-02T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=239482"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:55:49","slug":"il-dolce-far-niente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/il-dolce-far-niente\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Dolce Far Niente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Apostolos Kotsabasis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"581\">I woke up at noon. I had nothing to do\u2014for the first time in a long while. I didn\u2019t feel any pressure. I let the sunlight in; it cast shapes on the wall. The day passed slowly. There is a harsh kind of beauty in dedicating time to yourself\u2014no notifications, no digital conversations, no need to explain why you&#8217;re simply existing. In a society obsessed with multitasking, idleness feels like an act of resistance. A silent cry against a world that measures everything in likes. I thought of the Italian phrase <em data-start=\"615\" data-end=\"636\">il dolce far niente<\/em>\u2014the sweetness of doing absolutely nothing. A creative void. A calm reaction to the everyday rhythm. From the speaker plays <em data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"797\">&#8220;Hier encore, j\u2019avais vingt ans&#8221;<\/em>: Yesterday, I was twenty again, I had time\u2014but I spent it on roles, achievements, illusions. And now it\u2019s too late\u2026 But I\u2019m still here, and it\u2019s not too late\u2014not yet. Perhaps this personal nirvana is a state that truly holds meaning. Perhaps, in the pause, we briefly find ourselves\u2014before disappearing again behind screens and obligations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"968\" data-end=\"1143\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em><strong>Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Apostolos Kotsabasis I woke up at noon. I had nothing to do\u2014for the first time in a long while. I didn\u2019t feel any pressure. I let the sunlight in; it cast shapes on the wall. The day passed slowly. There is a harsh kind of beauty in dedicating time to yourself\u2014no notifications, no digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":239476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496,18563,18576],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239484,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239482\/revisions\/239484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}