{"id":2250,"date":"2008-12-03T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asc.wdtest.info\/en\/2008\/12\/03\/as-you-build-your-house-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:21:38","slug":"as-you-build-your-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/as-you-build-your-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"As You Build Your House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Build your house threefold,<br \/>As your body, threefold too,<br \/>As your body\u2019s music.<br \/>Feel how legs hold you,<br \/>Upright, firm, strong-<br \/>As the soles of your feet-<br \/>Sounding boards for<br \/>Earth\u2019s thrust and pull-<br \/>Anchoring, resonating.<br \/>Feel through them<br \/>The throb of earth\u2019s basses.<br \/>Feel this as you lay the foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Feel the airy light-filled<br \/>Chambers of your chest-<br \/>Windows, doors where<br \/>Life mingling with life-<br \/>Weaves in crescendo, diminuendo.<br \/>Feel your own melody weaving-<br \/>Feel it in the doors and windows,<br \/>In the listening walls of your house.<\/p>\n<p>Feel the closed, round dome<br \/>High above the rest- your head,<br \/>Mirror of the starry cosmos,<br \/>Where thoughts sparkle<br \/>And, comet-like, trumpet calls pierce,<br \/>Till melody and bass respond.<br \/>Feel this as you form the roof,Where elements pound, permeate,<br \/>Even as it embraces and protects.<\/p>\n<p>Build your house thus-<br \/>Craft lovingly this sound box,<br \/>Where your life\u2019s orchestra<br \/>Can play its great symphony.<br \/>But be prepared to leave in mid-melody.<br \/>A greater master revises all,<br \/>Fine-tunes the instruments,<br \/>Finds another stage in another place,<br \/>Again and again,<br \/>From life to life.<br \/>Feel this, too,<br \/>As you build your house.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra B. G\u00fcnther<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build your house threefold,As your body, threefold too,As your body\u2019s music.Feel how legs hold you,Upright, firm, strong-As the soles of your feet-Sounding boards forEarth\u2019s thrust and pull-Anchoring, resonating.Feel through themThe throb of earth\u2019s basses.Feel this as you lay the foundation. Feel the airy light-filledChambers of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}