{"id":5403,"date":"2022-04-07T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2022-04-07T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:55:09","slug":"719-unanswered-germain-droogenbroodt-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/719-unanswered-germain-droogenbroodt-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"719 | Unanswered &#8211; Germain Droogenbroodt, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-719-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-719-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-719-200x177.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-719.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Unanswered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her arms spread<br \/>\nas if she wants to embrace Heaven<br \/>\nthe Afghan mother begs food<br \/>\nfor her starving child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But her prayers<br \/>\ntouch neither human<br \/>\nnor Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Garden of Eden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paradise<br \/>\nhas not been lost<br \/>\nall those centuries<br \/>\nit continued to exist<br \/>\n<em>but not for everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Germain Droogenbroodt<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><em>Translation by the author and Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unanswered Her arms spread as if she wants to embrace Heaven the Afghan mother begs food for her starving child. But her prayers touch neither human nor Heaven. *** The Garden of Eden Paradise has not been lost all those centuries it continued to exist but not for everyone. Germain Droogenbroodt Translation by the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403"}],"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=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}