{"id":48,"date":"2012-10-04T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-10-04T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T20:58:41","slug":"like-the-end-of-a-beautiful-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Like the end of a beautiful song"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Death is like the end of a beautiful song<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>by Rev. Carrie Lauer on Sunday, June 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p>A person brings into our life a certain sound<br \/>\nlike no other sound we have heard before<br \/>\nWe are engaged in the melody, tone and rhythm<br \/>\nwe are emancipated from the day to day for<br \/>\none brief moment in time,<br \/>\nThen the song ends and the depth of silence left behind<br \/>\nleaves a longing in our heart, a ringing in our ears<br \/>\nand a wish for one more note.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Nancy Herrick sent this poem to me about a year ago when my brother died of prostate cancer. \u00a0It was poignant then and is infinitely more so today. \u00a0O, for just one more note, or a bar, or a stanza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is like the end of a beautiful song by Rev. Carrie Lauer on Sunday, June 12, 2011 A person brings into our life a certain sound like no other sound we have heard before We are engaged in the melody, tone and rhythm we are emancipated from the day to day for one brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akaregina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}