{"id":3622,"date":"2026-06-07T21:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:47:48","slug":"the-potato-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"The Potato Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around the low oak table, five pairs of hard-worked hands reached towards the centre.<br>\u2018Take one more, Cornelia,\u2019 Hendrik urged, his voice hoarse from smoking cheap tobacco. He pushed the largest potato towards his wife. She was pouring hot tea into their cups, the only luxury they could afford for dinner.<br>There was no trace of poetry in their lives, no grand romances or golden sunsets that weren\u2019t immediately followed by the dread of tomorrow\u2019s labour.<br>\u2018Tomorrow, the sun would rise, and the fields would demand our blood all over again,\u2019 Cornelia whispered with a bitter smile, her eyes meeting his. \u2018But tonight\u2026 tonight, we are together, and this is what matters most.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no trace of poetry in their lives, no grand romances or golden sunsets that weren\u2019t immediately followed by the dread of tomorrow\u2019s labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,64,89,120,12],"tags":[119,87],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","category-experimental-prose","category-paintings-into-letters","category-sixmorearts","category-yore","tag-six-more-arts","tag-van-gogh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurolit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}