{"id":786,"date":"2016-05-29T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:32","slug":"thoughts-on-life-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Life &#038; Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_1670.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_1670-300x215.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This month has been hard, saying goodbye. This week has been hard. Two untimely deaths. Young people-that struggled with life.<br \/>This poem came across FB from Maurice Hagar, &#038; it is a comfort to me.<br \/>Thank you, Evangeline Paterson.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think&#8211;<br \/>loving life so greatly&#8211;<br \/>that to die would be<br \/>like leaving a party<br \/>before the end.<br \/>Now I know that the party<br \/>is really happening<br \/>somewhere else;<br \/>that the light and the music&#8211;<br \/>escaping in snatches<br \/>to make the pulse beat<br \/>and the tempo quicken&#8211;<br \/>come from a long way<br \/>away.<br \/>And I know too<br \/>that when I get there<br \/>the music will never<br \/>end.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month has been hard, saying goodbye. This week has been hard. Two untimely deaths. Young people-that struggled with life.This poem came across FB from Maurice Hagar, &#038; it is a comfort to me.Thank you, Evangeline Paterson. I used to think&#8211;loving life so greatly&#8211;that to die would belike leaving a partybefore the end.Now I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}