{"id":51816,"date":"2023-11-30T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51816"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:55:45","slug":"michael-in-the-middle-of-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/michael-in-the-middle-of-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael in the Middle of the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"Often, even just a few days after September 29, we forget about Michaelmas. But the deeper atmosphere of this festival runs throughout the year and is part of the great spiritual celebration that we are able to experience, even in these difficult times. Following on the pandemic mega-event and the outbreak of war in Europe, it\u2019s worth taking a look at an unusual painting in Madeira.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne day, as I was walking down a narrow street of Funchal, the capital of Madeira, an island off the coast of Portugal, I happened to come across the old door of the Sacred Art Museum. At the time, I was visiting this wonderful small paradise of rocks and flowers in the middle of the Atlantic, at the suggestion of a Waldorf education pioneer. I was wondering if there was any motif of Michael and the dr<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>Often, even just a few days after September 29, we forget about Michaelmas. But the deeper atmosphere of this festival runs throughout the year and is part of the great spiritual celebration that we are able to experience, even in these difficult times. Following on the pandemic mega-event and the outbreak of war in Europe, it\u2019s worth taking a look at an unusual painting in Madeira. One day, as I was walking down a narrow street of Funchal, the capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19627,"featured_media":50920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11288,8786],"tags":[11390,8814],"class_list":["post-51816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-christology","tag-2023-43-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51816","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\/19627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}