{"id":2655,"date":"2016-07-13T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2016-07-13T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:34:05","slug":"we-were-not-born-for-days-like-these-taeko-uemura-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/we-were-not-born-for-days-like-these-taeko-uemura-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"We were not born for days like these, Taeko Uemura, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Foto-ITHACA-442-Taeko.jpg\" alt=\"Foto ITHACA 442 Taeko\" width=\"502\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Foto-ITHACA-442-Taeko.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Foto-ITHACA-442-Taeko-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">We were not born for days like these<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">In one\u2019s life, days like these should never happen again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> Such a thing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> Such a thought<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> Such a day should never happen again, for that purpose<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> I will throw all what I have been into the depth of the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Everything I experienced in life,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> The whole stack of mine, I will throw it away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> To be able to laugh heartily once more<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> For our future<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> I will throw all what I have been in the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">The future will certainly come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> I will make it come in by a quiet perseverance<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> No matter what I have to offer in exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #993300;\"> Taeko Uemura, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\"> <em>Translation: Mariko Sumikura \u2013 Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #993300;\"><em>Photo: &#8220;ZEN&#8221; Germain Droogenbroodt\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were not born for days like these In one\u2019s life, days like these should never happen again Such a thing Such a thought Such a day should never happen again, for that purpose I will throw all what I have been into the depth of the river Everything I experienced in life, The whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}