{"id":48729,"date":"2023-07-06T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48729"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:19:22","slug":"farewell-to-the-flapping-of-angels-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/farewell-to-the-flapping-of-angels-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to the Flapping of Angels\u2019 Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"Dramatic Development in the World of Birds.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year, birdsong sounds sparse\u2014not just \"sparser\", as it\u2019s been unmistakably getting more and more from year to year. Anyone who listened to the concert of birds at dawn twenty years ago could still experience the abundance of bird voices building up a full chorus that ultimately extended above and around them like a dome. What had been a few minutes earlier, in the silence of the night, the sparkling of stars in the heavenly dome became a grandiose echo of the twinkling stars at dawn in the concert of bird song. And now, in 2023? It sounds as if the curtains have already been autumnally lowered. The singing ebbs away, thinned out, without any prospect of ever being able to build up a dome of sound again.\n\n\n\nIntensive Agriculture an<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic Development in the World of Birds. This year, birdsong sounds sparse\u2014not just &#8220;sparser&#8221;, as it\u2019s been unmistakably getting more and more from year to year. Anyone who listened to the concert of birds at dawn twenty years ago could still experience the abundance of bird voices building up a full chorus that ultimately extended above and around them like a dome. What had been a few minutes earlier, in the silence of the night, the sparkling of stars in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9211,"featured_media":48497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,8816],"tags":[11350,8824],"class_list":["post-48729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-nature","tag-2023-25-26-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729","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\/9211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}