{"id":593,"date":"2016-12-19T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:35:59","slug":"old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Alter (Old-Age)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:48%;padding:0 10px 0 0;float:left; text-align: left;\">\n<p><strong>Alter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Das aber ist des Alters Sch\u00f6ne,<br \/>\nDa\u00df es die Saiten reiner stimmt,<br \/>\nDa\u00df es der Lust der grellen T\u00f6ne,<br \/>\nDem Schmerz den herbsten Stachel nimmt.<\/p>\n<p>Ermessen l\u00e4\u00dft sich und verstehen,<br \/>\nDie eigne mit der fremden Schuld,<br \/>\nUnd wie auch rings die Dinge gehen,<br \/>\nDu lernst dich fassen in Geduld.<\/p>\n<p>Die Ruhe kommt erf\u00fcllten Strebens,<br \/>\nEs schwindet des verfehlten Pein<br \/>\nUnd also wird der Rest des Lebens<br \/>\nEin sanftes R\u00fcckerinnern sein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width:48%;padding:0 10px 0 0; float:right; text-align: left;\">\n<p><strong>Old-Age<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I reflect at an older age,<br \/>\nI am less bothered by the unnecessary,<br \/>\nI take pleasure in the brightest significance,<br \/>\nwhile anticipating the bitterest sting.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the circumstances,<br \/>\nany who have regrets remaining,<br \/>\nseek forgiveness with best abilities&#8217;,<br \/>\nlearning patience when reprieved.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipate calm when persisting,<br \/>\nas dormant pain fades,<br \/>\nliving eases into death,<br \/>\nand memories become gentle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Alter by Ferdinand von Saar (1883-1906)<br \/>\nInterpretation of Alter for David DeMuth by his son David, 12\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alter Das aber ist des Alters Sch\u00f6ne, Da\u00df es die Saiten reiner stimmt, Da\u00df es der Lust der grellen T\u00f6ne, Dem Schmerz den herbsten Stachel nimmt. Ermessen l\u00e4\u00dft sich und verstehen, Die eigne mit der fremden Schuld, Und wie auch rings die Dinge gehen, Du lernst dich fassen in Geduld. Die Ruhe kommt erf\u00fcllten Strebens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddemuth.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}