{"id":4178,"date":"2019-12-17T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:54:50","slug":"the-canals-of-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-canals-of-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CANALS OF AMSTERDAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4179 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/606-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/606-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/606-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/606.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Korthals (1916-1972)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 400px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">THE CANALS OF AMSTERDAM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 400px;\">\nA city in November at nightfall:<br \/>\nThere are only the canals of Amsterdam<br \/>\nSuddenly,<br \/>\nThe oranges on the tree at my house<br \/>\nQuiver in the autumn wind<br \/>\nI shut the window, it\u2019s useless<br \/>\nThe river flows backwards, to no avail<br \/>\nThe sun, inlaid with pearls, has risen<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t help.<br \/>\nFlocks of pigeons whirl down like iron filings<br \/>\nStreets, devoid of boys, suddenly look empty.<br \/>\nAfter the autumn rains,<br \/>\nthose roofs full of crawling snails<br \/>\n\u2014my homeland<br \/>\nslowly pass over the canals of Amsterdam\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 400px;\">\n<strong>Duo Duo,<\/strong> China 1951<br \/>\n<em>Translation: Anna Keiko &#8211; Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; THE CANALS OF AMSTERDAM A city in November at nightfall: There are only the canals of Amsterdam Suddenly, The oranges on the tree at my house Quiver in the autumn wind I shut the window, it\u2019s useless The river flows backwards, to no avail The sun, inlaid with pearls, has risen It doesn\u2019t help. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/4178"}],"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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}