{"id":3163,"date":"2017-06-03T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T07:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2017-06-03T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T07:55:58","slug":"the-hour-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-hour-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HOUR OF GRACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Imagen-1.png 694w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE HOUR OF GRACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I used to think it could be solved this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">like people gathering in the station at midnight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for the last bus that will not come,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at first just a few, then more and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That was a chance to be close to one another,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to change everything, together<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to start a new world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But they disperse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(The hour of grace has passed. It won\u2018t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">come again.) Each one will go his own way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each will be a domino again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with one side up, looking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for another piece to match it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in games that go on and on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>YEHUDI AMIHAI<\/strong> (Israel, 1924 2000)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From: Yehuda Amihai, Selected Poems<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Penguin Books<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HOUR OF GRACE I used to think it could be solved this way: like people gathering in the station at midnight for the last bus that will not come, at first just a few, then more and more. That was a chance to be close to one another, to change everything, together to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3164,"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\/3163"}],"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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}