{"id":8717,"date":"2019-08-09T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:38:43","slug":"by-the-river-sunset-hypocenter-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/by-the-river-sunset-hypocenter-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"by the river&#8230;6pm sunset&#8230;hypocenter, Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>..Nagasaki..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>..Where I realized how to love people..By myself..by the river&#8230;6PM sunset 1 block from hypocenter..<br>..Where I realized why I traveled across the world to meet these people..Where I found emotion in Nagasaki..<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>..Where I realized what happened. Where I realized war is fucking shit..that kills the innocent..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-041.jpg\" alt=\"Documents 041\" class=\"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\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..Nagasaki.. ..Where I realized how to love people..By myself..by the river&#8230;6PM sunset 1 block from hypocenter&#8230;.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 the epicenter, this was when the devastation hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,100],"tags":[576,574,555,571],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-hypocenter-nagasaki","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","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=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}