{"id":290,"date":"2020-04-03T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?p=290"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:08:11","slug":"non-piangere-sei-uomo-dont-cry-youre-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Non Piangere. Sei Uomo! | Don’t Cry. You’re a Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The original Italian poem written by Antonio Ottavini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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They told me, when in the house \neverything was done in silence,\nand the furniture and decor \nwas very hard, heavy, unfamiliar,\nin the huge bedroom \n(big and faraway!)\nMy mother was cold and white; \nthey told me: \u201cdon\u2019t cry, you\u2019re a man!\u201d\n...Man!\nThen I saw a great expanse of earth\nand the mountains were light blue, hard, \nthe sea, vast, but so voracious \nlike a whirlwind, \nand the forests were black, \nthe cities were mute and deserted, \nthe streets were like a maze, the river \nwas impassable;\nand the wind was raging\nand the storm was terrible\ntwisting into a gorge that runs over;\nand me...alone: man!\nthe rotating stars and the immense \ninfinity...         \nme...nothing: man!\nAnd now... everything rolls, moves, overwhelms me... \nI lifted my hands to defend myself, \nand a trembling overtook me\nwith a great desire to runaway.\nI burst in tears but tried to hold it back; \n\u201cTake my hand mommy, I\u2019m scared!\u201d\nMom was cold and white... \nHer hands were beside her body without pulse\nhands of love, hands of forgiveness\nand her closed eyes, her very beautiful eyes, \nsilent... forever.\n...\n...take my hand, \nMommy, I\u2019m scared!...<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Original photo captured in 1935<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>
    Original photo of Antonio’s mother, Giulia Pappone, of whom he wrote the poem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    The above poem illustrates the hard loss that Antonio experienced at around the age of 14 when his mother passed away. The concept of “Don’t Cry. You’re a Man!” is a harsh reality many men still face in our society, coming through the ages. Young Antonio, like many other boys and men, experienced a overwhelming sadness, and had every right to feel this sadness, but was told this was just not the manly thing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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    The writer of this poem is Antonio Ottavini, and is captured in this original photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
    He was born on the 2nd of October 1937 and passed away on the 4th of August 1995.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    They told me, when in the house  everything was done in silence, and the furniture and decor  was very hard, heavy, unfamiliar, in the huge bedroom  (big and faraway!) My mother was cold and white;  they told me: \u201cdon\u2019t cry, you\u2019re a man!\u201d …Man! Then… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ymmm.co.za\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}