{"id":6945,"date":"2025-12-14T15:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:02:38","slug":"817-we-were-all-blown-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/817-we-were-all-blown-away\/","title":{"rendered":"817 | WE WERE ALL BLOWN AWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6946 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jinta-Hirayama-293x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jinta-Hirayama-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jinta-Hirayama-200x205.png 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jinta-Hirayama.png 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by Jinta Hirayama, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WE WERE ALL BLOWN AWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We were all blown away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blown to the right<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blown to the left<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blown this way and that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blown headlong<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was too wild to breathe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To think<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To pray<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To lament<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How long did it last?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It seemed like an eternity<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The howling wind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then someone said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018It\u2019s over . . .\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But it had only just begun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK, Ireland<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><br \/>\nTranslated by the poet<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>from \u201cRiders on the Storm\u201d, Kallatumba Press, San Francisco<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Jinta Hirayama, Japan &nbsp; WE WERE ALL BLOWN AWAY &nbsp; We were all blown away Blown to the right Blown to the left Blown this way and that Blown headlong It was too wild to breathe To think To pray To lament How long did it last? It seemed like an eternity The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6946,"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\/6945"}],"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=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}