{"id":65280,"date":"2025-04-17T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=65280"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:33:12","slug":"how-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/how-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"On the hill above the valley of oaks, I sit in the cold grass, wrapped in my sleeping bag. I like coming up here and watching the ravens play with the wind. Now it is night.\n\n\n\nI am waiting.\n\n\n\nBut the darkness bereft of moon and stars and the cold mist prickling my face tell me: I won\u2019t see it. That one moment on this one Sunday, that first sliver of fire on the dark line of the horizon telling us we can breathe again\u2014I won\u2019t see it. How will I know? A forlornness settles in me.\n\n\n\nI think about her, sitting in the darkness of the garden by the tomb\u2014sitting at the end of all that was conceivable and at the most inconceivable of all endings. Hope had died that Friday, nailed to a cross. What could possibly be left in her? Nothing. Not even waiting.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s all been said. Don\u2019t <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>On the hill above the valley of oaks, I sit in the cold grass, wrapped in my sleeping bag. I like coming up here and watching the ravens play with the wind. Now it is night. I am waiting. But the darkness bereft of moon and stars and the cold mist prickling my face tell me: I won\u2019t see it. That one moment on this one Sunday, that first sliver of fire on the dark line of the horizon telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19264,"featured_media":65113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8839],"tags":[11643,8798,11644],"class_list":["post-65280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","tag-ausgabe-16-17-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-16-17-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65280","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\/19264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}