{"id":949,"date":"2012-11-23T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelstoriesfromyworld.wordpress.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2017-03-20T03:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:15:31","slug":"the-trains-and-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/the-trains-and-their-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The trains and their stories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The train is like a tabula rasa. It doesn&#8217;t have an identity, a memory or a history by itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the train the passengers linger temporarily, and remain anonymous between the anonymous, with the purpose to complete their journey as effortlessly and painlessly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The train doesn&#8217;t belong to the passengers and they don&#8217;t belong to it. The train exists only for the journey. It is simply a pass .. an empty period of time between the place of departure and the destination. This is the modern way of life. We&#8217;ve reduced the geographical distances\u00a0but increased the personal ones.<\/p>\n<p>But, this does not mean that the train can&#8217;t gain meaning. We bring meaning to it through our experiences &#8230; and our stories.\u00a0The narration of these stories and their observation constitute its beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mare Spanoudaki studied<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Media and Culture at the Panteion University<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-950 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tstories.grwp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mare1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mare1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tstories.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mare1-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tstories.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mare1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The train is like a tabula rasa. It doesn&#8217;t have an identity, a memory or a history by itself. On the train the passengers linger temporarily, and remain anonymous between the anonymous, with the purpose to complete their journey as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1193],"tags":[818,837,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}