{"id":1889,"date":"2015-12-23T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2016-02-13T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:38:34","slug":"wishes-for-a-peaceful-and-loving-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wishes-for-a-peaceful-and-loving-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishes for a Peaceful and loving Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spreek-mij-over-liefde-Kl.jpg\" alt=\"Spreek mij over liefde Kl\" width=\"304\" height=\"412\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Explain to me love<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Explain to me love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">but speak softly, silently,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">not louder than the snow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">covering the twigs, grass, pathways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Don&#8217;t read to me how Orpheus laments,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">rather tell how light makes signs over the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I do not wish to know how Lear whines<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">just tell to me about how the spinning wheel hums<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">while creating the thread of waiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I do not want you to let me know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">how Cyrano uses flattering words<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">for there is no comparison with an &#8220;Ah!&#8221; in a quiet chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Explain to me love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">which allows two trees to grow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">so that in the rustle of their leaves<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">uncertainty fades slowly away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Matthias Bronisch<\/strong><\/span>, Germany<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt- Stanley H. Barkan<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Explain to me love Explain to me love but speak softly, silently, not louder than the snow covering the twigs, grass, pathways. Don&#8217;t read to me how Orpheus laments, rather tell how light makes signs over the water. I do not wish to know how Lear whines just tell to me about how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}