4x4 post bowing into gate

The 4x4" PT Pine post for my fence patch bowed into the gate. What is the best and easiest way to create space for the gate? I'm not sure how to drill and bolt the post to the brick and I'd rather not village the envelope of my home. I could pull the post and rotate it... if I turned it 180 deg I think that I would still need to secure it to the brick so that it wouldn't bow into the gate. You can see from the pic that it bowed 1 1/4" away from my house.

I thought that I'd dried the...

4x4 post bowing into gate