{"id":7012,"date":"2026-02-02T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:47:15","slug":"822-12-february-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/822-12-february-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"822 | 12 February 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7013 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montagnes-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montagnes-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montagnes-200x89.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/montagnes.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Photo Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>12 February 1983<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His age,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a lot of wrinkles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He wasn&#8217;t always like that;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he used to drink red wine;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">once he felt guilty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he wept and prayed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">until he saw God as a glow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He recently went to the village,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he saw the oak tree withered,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the holy-water font was ash,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the priest grass,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and Allah far behind the mountains,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">far, far away,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">invisible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FUAD RIFKA<\/strong>, SYRIA 1930-2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation Fuad Rifka \u2013 Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From:<em> \u2018<strong>The Ruin of the Sufi\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Germain Droogenbroodt &nbsp; 12 February 1983 His age, a lot of wrinkles. He wasn&#8217;t always like that; he used to drink red wine; once he felt guilty, he wept and prayed, until he saw God as a glow. He recently went to the village, he saw the oak tree withered, the holy-water font was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012"}],"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=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}