{"id":992400,"date":"2023-02-14T06:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=274024"},"modified":"2023-02-14T06:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:41:52","slug":"letter-to-an-old-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/14\/letter-to-an-old-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to an Old Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel almost ashamed to say that it\u2019s taken all these years to finally get around to reading Rainer Maria Rilke in earnest. As an undergraduate, decades ago, I heard all kinds of great things about his masterful idiosyncratic expressiveness that toyed and purloined the heart. He was said to be not only the cat\u2019s  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/14\/letter-to-an-old-poet\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/14\/letter-to-an-old-poet\/\">Letter to an Old Poet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/14\/letter-to-an-old-poet\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel almost ashamed to say that it\u2019s taken all these years to finally get around to reading Rainer Maria Rilke in earnest. As an undergraduate, decades ago, I heard all kinds of great things about his masterful idiosyncratic expressiveness that toyed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992401,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992400\/revisions\/992401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}