{"id":3026,"date":"2016-12-21T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T06:31:14","slug":"shortage-of-maids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/shortage-of-maids\/","title":{"rendered":"SHORTAGE OF MAIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITHACA-461-SHORTAGE-OF-MAIDS-Ilse-Aichinger-Austria-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"ithaca-461-shortage-of-maids-ilse-aichinger-austria\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITHACA-461-SHORTAGE-OF-MAIDS-Ilse-Aichinger-Austria-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITHACA-461-SHORTAGE-OF-MAIDS-Ilse-Aichinger-Austria-300x307.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITHACA-461-SHORTAGE-OF-MAIDS-Ilse-Aichinger-Austria-200x205.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITHACA-461-SHORTAGE-OF-MAIDS-Ilse-Aichinger-Austria.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who keeps the rock on track?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who mows the grass?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who closed for us the places<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">on the other side of the road?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Those who ate with spoons,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">took the stones along with them<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in their shoes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and left long ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who will still help us,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who leaves now the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">its easy game?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Are we left alone from tree to tree<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or will the shadows,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">those comforters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">soon move from their nets<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and come down to us?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ilse Aichinger (Vienna 1921 \u201311.11 2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From \u201eVerschenkter Rat\u201c, S. Fischer Verlag<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The recently passed away Aichinger was one of the most important modern Austrian poets<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who keeps the rock on track? who mows the grass? who closed for us the places on the other side of the road? Those who ate with spoons, took the stones along with them in their shoes and left long ago. Who will still help us, who leaves now the sun its easy game? Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3027,"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\/3026"}],"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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}