{"id":245410,"date":"2025-12-05T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=245410"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:51:14","slug":"authentic-is-an-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/authentic-is-an-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"AUTHENTIC IS AN ATTITUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"563\" data-end=\"592\">Authenticity attracts me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"150\" data-end=\"492\">I love vintage cars whose wooden steering wheels have been shaped by a craftsman, where the sound and the smell are different. You can recognize a \u201972 Alfa Romeo just by its sound. I like a woman who has remained natural, resisting the plasticization of our era. I travel to places that remain unspoiled (which is very hard to find nowadays).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"845\">I prefer simple, classic cooking, with just a few ingredients. I no longer buy clothes because I already have plenty, and I don\u2019t follow fashion trends. Among the few brands I like are Barbour and GANT &#8211; brands with legacy. As for watches, I\u2019ve been wearing the same ones for years. The one that stands out for me is the Rolex Deep Sea, which I wear every day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"1399\">I listen to music that transports me and choose tracks from around the world for my radio show &#8211; music with elements of sensuality and cosmopolitan vibes. As my friend Christos Zambounis says, we are resistance fighters. I will never forget a trip to Jordan with Christos, where he injured himself trying to get into his room through the balcony, and I was wheeling him around Cairo in a wheelchair while we smoked cigars. When we saw a NO SMOKING sign in the hotel, we politely asked the receptionist, \u201cCan we smoke?\u201d His disarming reply: \u201cOf course, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1447\">You are authentic when others try to copy you.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1483\"><em><strong>Thalis Pitoulis,<\/strong><\/em><br data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1468\" \/><em><strong>MANCODE founder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authenticity attracts me. I love vintage cars whose wooden steering wheels have been shaped by a craftsman, where the sound and the smell are different. You can recognize a \u201972 Alfa Romeo just by its sound. I like a woman who has remained natural, resisting the plasticization of our era. I travel to places that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":245407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18500],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245410"}],"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=245410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245441,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245410\/revisions\/245441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}