{"id":6925,"date":"2025-11-28T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:41:16","slug":"815-sirens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/815-sirens\/","title":{"rendered":"815 | Sirens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christoph-Janacs-dessin-800x600-1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christoph-Janacs-dessin-800x600-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christoph-Janacs-dessin-800x600-1-200x138.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christoph-Janacs-dessin-800x600-1-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Christoph-Janacs-dessin-800x600-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Drawing by Christoph Janacs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sirens 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The song of sirens,<br \/>\nawakening me from a dream<br \/>\non Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The howl of low-flying aircraft,<br \/>\nwhile mother runs<br \/>\npushing the baby buggy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in front of her, screaming,<br \/>\nthe patter of impacts,<br \/>\nas she holds her hands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">protectively over the grandchild,<br \/>\nas if she could<br \/>\nkeep off death,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and decades<br \/>\nlater she still talks about it,<br \/>\nas if it all<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">happened yesterday:<br \/>\nan absurd scene<br \/>\nthat never ends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CHRISTOPH JANACS, Austria, 1955<br \/>\nTranslation Germain Droogenbroodt- Stanley Barkan<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing by Christoph Janacs Sirens 2 The song of sirens, awakening me from a dream on Saturday afternoon. The howl of low-flying aircraft, while mother runs pushing the baby buggy in front of her, screaming, the patter of impacts, as she holds her hands protectively over the grandchild, as if she could keep off death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925"}],"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=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}