{"id":489,"date":"2013-03-03T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=489"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:57:46","slug":"a-visual-explication-of-the-end-of-rilkes-duino-elegies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Explication of the End of Rilke&#8217;s Duino Elegies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdJc1_IBKJA?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>And yet if the eternal dead were to wake an image in us,<br \/>\nlook, they might be pointing to the catkins<br \/>\nhanging from empty hazels, or they might remind us<br \/>\nof the rain that falls on the dark earth in early spring.<\/p>\n<p>And we, who have always thought<br \/>\nof happiness as <em>ascending<\/em>,<br \/>\nwould feel the emotion<br \/>\nthat almost undoes us<br \/>\nwhen a happy thing <em>falls<\/em>.<sup id=\"fnref:1\"><a href=\"#fn:1\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn:1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0465026222\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=j.estes-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0465026222&amp;adid=01365NHPFHGN76EKK9WX\">Gass translation<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"#fnref:1\" rev=\"footnote\">\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet if the eternal dead were to wake an image in us, look, they might be pointing to the catkins hanging from empty hazels, or they might remind us of the rain that falls on the dark earth in early spring. And we, who have always thought of happiness as ascending, would feel the emotion that almost undoes us &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}