{"id":11900,"date":"2020-12-09T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/?page_id=11900"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:29:08","slug":"view-through-closed-eyes-borderlands-sketches-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/view-through-closed-eyes-borderlands-sketches-6\/","title":{"rendered":"View through Closed Eyes. Borderland&#8217;s Sketches 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-1026x1536.jpg 1026w, https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5-600x898.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Kresy-by-Bartosz-Fr\u0105tczak-5.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a cold morning. The rain is freezing on the clothes. My hands are so numb that I can hardly move the dials of the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Watch, watch, be alert!&#8217;<a><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>&nbsp;The cry of several dozen scout voices is heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there is silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I set my 90mm Tele-Elmarit to take a picture. I freeze at the piercing thought that it was THEM to die first in the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rossa cemetery. Vilnius.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a>[1]<\/a>\u00a0An excerpt of a Polish scout song, including the Polish scout motto &#8216;Czuwaj&#8217;, translating literally as &#8216;be aware&#8217; or &#8216;stay alert&#8217;, symbolising readiness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimny poranek. Deszcz zamarza na ubraniu. Straci\u0142em czucie w d\u0142oniach, z trudem przesuwam pokr\u0119t\u0142a aparatu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Czuj,&nbsp;czuj,&nbsp;czuwaj! \u2013 rozlega si\u0119 okrzyk kilkudziesi\u0119ciu harcerskich garde\u0142. Po chwili zapada cisza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wymierzam sw\u00f3j 90-milimetrowy tele-elmarit, by zrobi\u0107 zdj\u0119cie. Zastygam na moment, gdy nachodzi mnie my\u015bl, \u017ce w\u0142a\u015bnie tacy jak oni gin\u0119li na wojnie jako pierwsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cmentarz na Rossie. Wilno. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a cold morning. The rain is freezing on the clothes. My hands are so numb that I can hardly move the dials of the camera. &#8216;Watch, watch, be alert!&#8217;[1]&nbsp;The cry of several dozen scout voices is heard. Then there is silence. I set my 90mm Tele-Elmarit to take a picture. I freeze at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartoszfratczak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}