{"id":44430,"date":"2023-02-02T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=44430"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T11:05:47","slug":"fire-and-ashes-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/fire-and-ashes-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Ashes on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"On December 31st, I participated in the night watch of the Goetheanum. It was the 100-year anniversary of the burning of the first Goetheanum. The first Goetheanum was a jewel from the spiritual world for human beings to experience what human culture could be when we decide to endeavor into our full humanity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt was tragically burned down, by arson, on the night of New Year\u2019s Eve. It was a fire initiation for Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society, who had spent 10 years working on the building. Much more information can be found on the events elsewhere, but I would like to relay my experience of the night watch here.\n\n\n\nThe Goetheanum decided to hold a night watch in which free events were scheduled throughout the night and into the morning. I signed on to volunteer for <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 31st, I participated in the night watch of the Goetheanum. It was the 100-year anniversary of the burning of the first Goetheanum. The first Goetheanum was a jewel from the spiritual world for human beings to experience what human culture could be when we decide to endeavor into our full humanity. It was tragically burned down, by arson, on the night of New Year\u2019s Eve. It was a fire initiation for Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17660,"featured_media":44528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8762,8837],"tags":[8814],"class_list":["post-44430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goetheanum","category-restrospective","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}