{"id":64072,"date":"2026-09-13T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64072"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:23:16","slug":"rilke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64072","title":{"rendered":"Rilke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mother Earth, isn\u2019t this what you want<br \/>\nTo arise in us invisible?<br \/>\nIs it not your dream, to enter us so wholly<br \/>\nthere\u2019s nothing left outside us to see?<br \/>\nWhat, if not transformation,<br \/>\nis your deepest purpose? Earth, my love,<br \/>\nI want that too. Believe me,<br \/>\nno more of your spring times are needed<br \/>\nto win me over \u2014 even one flower<br \/>\nis more than enough. Before I was named<br \/>\nI belonged to you. I follow no other law<br \/>\nbut yours, and I know I can trust<br \/>\nThe death you will bring.<br \/>\n~Rainer Maria Rilke~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mother Earth, isn\u2019t this what you want To arise in us invisible? Is it not your dream, to enter us so wholly there\u2019s nothing left outside us to see? What, if not transformation, is your deepest purpose? Earth, my love, I want that too. Believe me, no more of your spring times are needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rilke<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64073,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64072\/revisions\/64073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}