{"id":6986,"date":"2026-01-03T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:05:42","slug":"820-a-new-year-without-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/820-a-new-year-without-war\/","title":{"rendered":"820 | A NEW YEAR WITHOUT WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>With our best Wishes for the New Year <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6987 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Walfrido-Heavens-Gate-Varenna-Como-Lake-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Walfrido-Heavens-Gate-Varenna-Como-Lake-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Walfrido-Heavens-Gate-Varenna-Como-Lake-200x201.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Walfrido-Heavens-Gate-Varenna-Como-Lake.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Heaven\u2019s Gate, Varenna, Como Lake, by Walfrido<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A New Year Without War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the rim of the widening gyre of war, the year takes breath.<br \/>\nIn Ukraine, bells toll where once the smoke held sway;<br \/>\nOn Gaza\u2019s ash, the olive quickens into light,<br \/>\nAnd Thailand\u2019s, Cambodia\u2019s ancient wounds drink lucid rain.<br \/>\nWithin that rain of pity binding the shattered world,<br \/>\nThe withered beast of wrath departs; a child of grace is born.<br \/>\nThe chronicler of night blots out mankind\u2019s lament<br \/>\nAnd writes at dawn\u2014<br \/>\nWhen the new gate swung wide, mankind hearkened to the heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Byeong Cheol Kang<\/strong>, Korea<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our best Wishes for the New Year Heaven\u2019s Gate, Varenna, Como Lake, by Walfrido &nbsp; A New Year Without War At the rim of the widening gyre of war, the year takes breath. In Ukraine, bells toll where once the smoke held sway; On Gaza\u2019s ash, the olive quickens into light, And Thailand\u2019s, Cambodia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6987,"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\/6986"}],"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=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}