{"id":5143,"date":"2021-10-04T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:25:10","slug":"697-i-plucked-the-rose-irwan-abu-bakar-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/697-i-plucked-the-rose-irwan-abu-bakar-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"697  | I plucked the rose &#8211; Irwan Abu Bakar, Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/697-ik-plukte-de-roos-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"697 - rozen\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/697-ik-plukte-de-roos-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/697-ik-plukte-de-roos-200x225.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/697-ik-plukte-de-roos.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I PLUCKED THE ROSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I plucked the rose,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the fragrance and the thorns came with the blossom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was in love with the fragrance and the thorns:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a moment indulging in sniffing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a moment in pain being pricked<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">infatuated and maddened<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with earthly pleasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Irwan Abu Bakar<\/strong>, Malaysia<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by the author and Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Kuala Lumpur, 12.02.2001.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I PLUCKED THE ROSE When I plucked the rose, the fragrance and the thorns came with the blossom. I was in love with the fragrance and the thorns: a moment indulging in sniffing a moment in pain being pricked infatuated and maddened with earthly pleasure. Irwan Abu Bakar, Malaysia Translated by the author and Stanley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"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=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}