{"id":688,"date":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/il-vecchio-e-il-mare-quando-amare-significa-rispettare-il-limite-ernest-hemingway\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","slug":"il-vecchio-e-il-mare-quando-amare-significa-rispettare-il-limite-ernest-hemingway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/il-vecchio-e-il-mare-quando-amare-significa-rispettare-il-limite-ernest-hemingway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man and the Sea \u2013 When love means respecting limits | Ernest Hemingway"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-688-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124144782\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429739133-44100-2-2524ee2cfe5e6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124144782\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429739133-44100-2-2524ee2cfe5e6.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/111cf21e8\/podcast\/play\/124144782\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429739133-44100-2-2524ee2cfe5e6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Some battles we can win. Others simply teach us who we are.<\/p>\n<p>In this new episode of\u00a0<strong>Tra pagine e legami<\/strong>\u00a0we climb into the small boat of Santiago, Hemingway's ageing fisherman, to cross a sea that feels very much like life.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-four days without catching a fish. Then another journey, an encounter with a giant marlin, exhaustion, wonder, struggle and finally the return home.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0<em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>\u00a0is not merely the story of a fisherman.<\/p>\n<p>It is a story about\u00a0<strong>limits, dignity, respect and our relationship with nature<\/strong>. It also questions our need to control, possess and succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Because perhaps growing up does not mean learning to dominate everything.<\/p>\n<p>It means understanding that we will never completely control the sea, other people, relationships or life.<\/p>\n<p>But we can choose\u00a0<strong>how to navigate them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7\u00a0<strong>Season two \u2013 Remaining human in our common home | Episode 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A question to take away after listening:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What sea are you navigating at this moment in your life? Are you trying to control it, or learning to live within it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\u00a0<em>Tra pagine e legami<\/em><br \/>by\u00a0<strong>Francesco Mazzarella<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ci sono battaglie che possiamo vincere. E altre che, semplicemente, ci insegnano chi siamo. In questa nuova puntata di\u00a0Tra pagine e legami\u00a0saliamo sulla piccola barca di Santiago, il vecchio pescatore raccontato da Ernest Hemingway, per attraversare un mare che assomiglia molto alla vita. Ottantaquattro giorni senza pescare nulla. Poi un nuovo viaggio, l&#8217;incontro con un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francescomazzarella.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}