The New Ones… In the jargon, they are called the newcomers. They are\u00a0recognisable by their enthusiasm and by their unrestrained optimism.\u00a0They want to see and try everything because it’s new. They have an\u00a0obsession to compare everything with their previous life. They fantasise\u00a0about what the city could become (a new Barcelona, New York or Algiers)\u00a0before realising that it is in no way similar to other places; in its virtues as\u00a0in its excesses. Their candour and, sometimes, their naivety will last little\u00a0more than two years but it is beneficial because it infuses new energies\u00a0into rusty engines and open the path of possibilities. If they survive the\u00a0course and do not choose exile, they will be permanently contaminated\u00a0by the gentle poison of the Mediterranean tenderness. In turn they will be\u00a0awakened by other visitors from the open sea to whom the city belongs\u00a0as the writer said (Blaise Cendrars). I was one of them. This is not forgotten. (E.F)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New Ones… In the jargon, they are called the newcomers. They are\u00a0recognisable by their enthusiasm and by their unrestrained optimism.\u00a0They want to see and try everything because it’s new. They have an\u00a0obsession to compare everything with their previous life. They fantasise\u00a0about what the city could become (a new Barcelona, New York or Algiers)\u00a0before realising that it is in no way similar to other places; in its virtues as\u00a0in its excesses. Their candour and, sometimes, their naivety will last little\u00a0more than two years but it is beneficial because it infuses new energies\u00a0into rusty engines and open the path of possibilities. If they survive the\u00a0course and do not choose exile, they will be permanently contaminated\u00a0by the gentle poison of the Mediterranean tenderness. In turn they will be\u00a0awakened by other visitors from the open sea to whom the city belongs\u00a0as the writer said (Blaise Cendrars). I was one of them. This is not forgotten. (E.F)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8524],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87054,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87052\/revisions\/87054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87052"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marseille.love-spots.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=87052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}