{"id":21704,"date":"2025-12-08T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/?post_type=product&#038;p=21704"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:53:49","slug":"video-recit-001","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/object\/video-recit-001\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: \u201cI\u2019m a Greek Girl\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.alaya-deep-view {display:none !important;} .woocommerce-page div.product div.summary {margin-bottom: 0em !important;}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"longdescrmuseum\" class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\">A school poem about the Asia Minor refugees, memorably presented by Varvara Koumoutsou, a textile worker in Nea Ionia, originally from Alaya (Asia Minor). The recitation was delivered spontaneously at the opening of the ALAYA Cultural Centre** (\u201cThe House of the Alayans\u201d) on 10 December 2023.\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"longdescrmuseum\" class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\">\n<h3 style=\"margin: 0 0 1em;font-size: 25px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0;\">VIDEO<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyPf2xujY0o?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;si=Hq8v2PxYBrjDWCK-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 20px;\"><em> The 1927 photograph captures the family of Lazaros Ineopolitis, from the archive of KE.MI.PO. (Municipality of Nea Ionia).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a Greek girl<br \/>\nout of Asia Minor<br \/>\nWhat have these eyes of mine looked on?<br \/>\nA vast despair.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the Turks with swords,<br \/>\nthe Turks with knives<br \/>\nslaughtering Greeks<br \/>\nwith their forsaken hands.<\/p>\n<p>As if the blood<br \/>\nthat ran like a lake\nwere not enough<br \/>\nthey set the fire<br \/>\nand Smyrna burned.<\/p>\n<p>As a bird takes flight<br \/>\nand cleaves the air<br \/>\nso we were flung to flight<br \/>\nand ended up here.<\/p>\n<p>We left our homes behind<br \/>\nour households, all we\u2019d made<br \/>\nand now, remembering them<br \/>\nour hearts split open<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":21707,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[218],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21704","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-recordings","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaya.gr\/digitalmuseum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}