{"id":4187,"date":"2019-12-17T22:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:18:22","slug":"midwinterlied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/midwinterlied\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDWINTER SONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4188 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/609-177x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/609-177x300.png 177w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/609-300x508.png 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/609-200x339.png 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/609.png 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture by Satish Gupta<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>MIDWINTER SONG<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSo hard can be the shadows of the night<br \/>\nthat the heartbeat of my beloved<br \/>\nbecomes heavy and dark<br \/>\nSo hard they can be the shadows of the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">WHEN UNDER A CRESCENT MOON<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When under a crescent moon<br \/>\nthe breeze blows through dead foliage<br \/>\nyou will be my rose.<br \/>\nWhen the fingertips of sadness<br \/>\nheavily weigh on the red string<br \/>\nyou will be my smile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>STEF\u00c1N H\u00d6R\u00d0UR GR\u00cdMSSON,<\/strong> Iceland (1919 -2002)<br \/>\n<em>Translation: Th\u00f3r Stef\u00e1nsson &#8211; Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MIDWINTER SONG So hard can be the shadows of the night that the heartbeat of my beloved becomes heavy and dark So hard they can be the shadows of the night. *** WHEN UNDER A CRESCENT MOON When under a crescent moon the breeze blows through dead foliage you will be my rose. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4188,"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\/4187"}],"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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}