{"id":759,"date":"2020-09-23T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/seniorstudio\/?p=759"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:24:09","slug":"prayer-from-rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/2020\/09\/23\/prayer-from-rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer from Rilke&#8217;s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because once someone dared<br \/>\nto want you,<br \/>\nI know that we, too, may want you.<\/p>\n<p>When gold is in the mountain<br \/>\nand we&#8217;ve ravaged the depths<br \/>\ntill we&#8217;ve given up digging,<\/p>\n<p>it will be brought forth into day<br \/>\nby the river that mines<br \/>\nthe silences of stone.<\/p>\n<p>Even when we don&#8217;t desire it,<br \/>\nGod is ripening.<\/p>\n<p>Rilke, Rainer Maria. <i>Rilke&#8217;s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God<\/i>. Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Rogers Macy. Riverhead Books, 2005.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-759\" data-postid=\"759\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-759 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because once someone dared to want you, I know that we, too, may want you. When gold is in the mountain and we&#8217;ve ravaged the depths till we&#8217;ve given up digging, it will be brought forth into day by the river that mines the silences of stone. Even when we don&#8217;t desire it, God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-prayers","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}