{"id":7138,"date":"2026-05-24T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:48:00","slug":"the-dove-of-maria-and-alexis-the-topi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7138","title":{"rendered":"The dove of Maria and Alexis the topi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a topiary in his hands and a jersey in <b>Barcelona<\/b> colours on the table, <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b> makes another announcement of his <b>party.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As he informs us, he has found the colours, which are <b>the &#8220;blue of our homeland&#8221; and the &#8220;red of our struggles&#8221;. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Obviously Mr Tsipras has a little problem, i<b>perhaps colour blindness, <\/b>or an inability, like most males, <b>to pick out the subtle shades of the palette.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because what we see on both the topiary and the jersey <b>is neither blue nor red.<\/b>You will say to me that I am asking a lot of a man who <b>has failed to learn the differences between Yes and No, I am tearing his <\/b> <b>memoranda<\/b> <b>from imposing memoranda, Lesbos from Mytilene, the effect produced by a 180 or 360 degree turn<\/b> and many other things that everyone remembers with a knot in their stomach &#8211; except for him who <b>decided to change the past<\/b> by writing his &#8220;Ithaca&#8221; with his own truths.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the past, if it has a comforting effect on the future, is just that: it is the past, and no one has ever managed to change it, <b>except to relive it in case something was not learned the first time.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> So the multiply ex resurfaces with obvious intentions <b>to further football the already earthy atmosphere that the existing opposition<\/b> is industriously serving in and out of parliament, <b>hopefully introspectively hoping Alexis will win on penalties<\/b> <b>Maria Karystianou,<\/b> who comes down <b>with the sword of catharsis and a black rose on her lapel,<\/b> a reminder of mourning and crushing on the untarnished white of what <b>Kapodistrias envisioned, <\/b>Dostoevsky <\/b>appeared, <b>Thanasis Avgerinos<\/b> recited and <b>Katerina Moutsatsou<\/b> sang, making the interludes of Nikos Xylouris.<\/p>\n<p> Finally, and because I&#8217;m a good person, let Alexis&#8217; legal advisors take a look at whether they are covered by <b>Barcelona&#8217;s <b>Color-Signal Copyright and Trademark Law.<\/b> Maria Karustianou&#8217;s lawyers have no reason to bother, <b>what Moses wrote on the tablets is not covered<\/b> due to his death in perpetuity&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a topi in his hands and a shirt with Barcelona colours on the table, Alexis Tsipras makes another announcement of his party.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}