{"id":1630,"date":"2025-11-14T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/?page_id=1630"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:44:25","slug":"postcards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Mondov\u00ec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/postcard-sample.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/postcard-sample.jpg 650w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/postcard-sample-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote these \u201cpostcards\u201d originally as emails to family and friends.&nbsp; They reached a wider audience when my friend Silvia Pio began publishing them in Margutte, an online self-described \u201cun-magazine\u201d of culture: literature and criticism, essays and fiction, reviews of books and art exhibitions.&nbsp; To read Silvia&#8217;s Italian translations of some of my Postcards from Mondov\u00ec, follow this link: &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.margutte.com\/?tag=greetings-from-mondovi\">Greetings from Mondov\u00ec<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Synagogue-768x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Synagogue-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Synagogue-768x576-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/category\/post-13\/\">2013<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-snow-768x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-snow-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/in-the-snow-768x576-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/category\/2014\/\">2014<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/carnevale1-OK-768x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/carnevale1-OK-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/carnevale1-OK-768x576-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/category\/2016\/\">2016<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mascherina-protettiva_OK-768x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mascherina-protettiva_OK-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mascherina-protettiva_OK-768x576-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/category\/2020\/\">2020<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote these \u201cpostcards\u201d originally as emails to family and friends.&nbsp; They reached a wider audience when my friend Silvia Pio began publishing them in Margutte, an online self-described \u201cun-magazine\u201d of culture: literature and criticism, essays and fiction, reviews of books and art exhibitions.&nbsp; To read Silvia&#8217;s Italian translations of some of my Postcards from<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/postcards\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-nosidebar_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouritalianfarmhouse.com\/ourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}