{"id":689,"date":"2009-08-10T01:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T05:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2010-03-20T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:41:14","slug":"where-i-realized-how-to-love-people-by-myself-by-the-river-6pm-1-block-from-epicenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/where-i-realized-how-to-love-people-by-myself-by-the-river-6pm-1-block-from-epicenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I realized how to love people..by myself..by the river 6PM 1 block from epicenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..September 2008    1 block from epicenter, Nagasaki..<\/p>\n<p>..Where I realized how to love people..By myself..by the river 6PM sunset 1 block from epicenter..<br \/>\n..Where I realized why I traveled across the world to meet these people..Where I found emotion in Nagasaki..<\/p>\n<p>..The first time I saw the reflection in the small stream running next to the epicenter, this was when the devastation hit me.  It&#8217;s one of the most moving photos I took.  Peaceful but remorseful.  <\/p>\n<p>..I first saw the reflection of the archway in the shallow water.  As August 9th, 1945 grew older the pile of bodies multiplied in the canal.  Eventually making a dam of corpses which stopped the running water.  The corpses piled almost to the top of the 20 foot archway.  <\/p>\n<p>Along with the reflection of the archway, I can see the reflection of innocent that didn&#8217;t need to die.  Why did this happen?  It didn&#8217;t need to.  This image has more of an effect on me than the epicenter.  How can a scene so peaceful be a grave 64 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>..Where I realized what happened.  Where I realized war is fucking shit..that kills the innocent..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-041.jpg\" alt=\"Documents 041\" title=\"Documents 041\" width=\"570\" height=\"830\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-696\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-041.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-041-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa5.jpg\" alt=\"1aaa\" title=\"1aaa\" width=\"570\" height=\"590\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-697\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa5.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1aaa5-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-12680478-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..September 2008 1 block from epicenter, Nagasaki.. ..Where I realized how to love people..By myself..by the river 6PM sunset 1 block from epicenter.. ..Where I realized why I traveled across the world to meet these people..Where I found emotion in Nagasaki.. ..The first time I saw the reflection in the small stream running next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,100],"tags":[576,574,126,571],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-epi-center-nagasaki","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}