{"id":29128,"date":"2024-12-25T07:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/i-had-strict-rules-to-keep-my-british-and-italian-lives-separate-then-i-learned-the-joy-of-being-both-silvia-saunders\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T07:11:23","slug":"i-had-strict-rules-to-keep-my-british-and-italian-lives-separate-then-i-learned-the-joy-of-being-both-silvia-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/i-had-strict-rules-to-keep-my-british-and-italian-lives-separate-then-i-learned-the-joy-of-being-both-silvia-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"I had strict rules to keep my British and Italian lives separate. Then I learned the joy of being both | Silvia Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would elbow my mum when she spoke Italian in England, until I realised each part of my identity is more than just a \u2018half\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/series\/what-home-means-to-me\">In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since I was small, I have liked sitting on stairs to read. In my childhood home, in Nuneaton, I favoured the square of carpet between the two flights, positioned directly opposite the wall-mounted clock, so I could keep an eye on how many pages I could squeeze in before bed. My favourite place to read, though, has always been the red tiled steps that lead to the front door of my nonna\u2019s house in Puglia. There are photos of me and my cousins on those steps at every age. If I close my eyes, I can feel the terracotta under my hands, somehow always warm, even in deepest winter.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my childhood, I grappled with the question: <em>\u201cTi senti pi\u00f9 inglese o pi\u00f9 italiana<\/em>?\u201d \u2013 do you feel more English or more Italian? I\u2019m British-Italian, and most of my family live in the heel of Italy\u2019s boot, in a very small town of \u2013 at the last census \u2013 6,200 inhabitants. My mum is one of five siblings, and the only one who moved any real distance from San Donaci, relocating to the Midlands for love, before having me, her only child.<\/p>\n<p>Silvia Saunders is an author. Her debut novel, Homesick, is published in January 2025<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/25\/british-italian-lives-england-identity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would elbow my mum when she spoke Italian in England, until I realised each part of my identity is more than just a \u2018half\u2019 In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home Since I was small, I have liked sitting on &#8230; <a title=\"I had strict rules to keep my British and Italian lives separate. Then I learned the joy of being both | Silvia Saunders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/i-had-strict-rules-to-keep-my-british-and-italian-lives-separate-then-i-learned-the-joy-of-being-both-silvia-saunders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I had strict rules to keep my British and Italian lives separate. Then I learned the joy of being both | Silvia Saunders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}