{"id":4555,"date":"2023-02-24T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:37:03","slug":"in-todays-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"in today&#8217;s news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in sunshine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am thinking with gratitude<br>of a dear heart<br>who has a birthday today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and also in the many memories<br>of my dear Dad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as well<br>I am listening to the soundtrack from Waking Ned Devine<br>which I love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in no small part<br>because of my large crush<br>on David Kelly<br>(and David Kelly on a motorcycle in nothing but socks&#8230; oh my! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t3\/1\/16\/1f92d.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2d\">)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a favourite part, when on<br>Lux Eterna, My Eternal Friend<br>comes these words by Ian Brennan as Jackie O&#8217;Shea<br>(*must be read in a lovely Irish accent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Michael O&#8217;Sullivan was my great friend. But I don&#8217;t ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead. What a wonderful thing it would be to visit your own funeral. To sit at the front and hear what was said, maybe say a few things yourself. Michael and I grew old together. But at times, when we laughed, we grew young. If he was here now, if he could hear what I say, I&#8217;d congratulate him on being a great man, and thank him for being a friend.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking this is just the thing<br>to slip in ones pocket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and take it with you<br>on this day <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6a\/1\/16\/1f497.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc97\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in sunshine, I am thinking with gratitudeof a dear heartwho has a birthday today and also in the many memoriesof my dear Dad as wellI am listening to the soundtrack from Waking Ned Devinewhich I love in no small&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4555\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,954,957,955,952,950,956,42,951,953],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdaylove","tag-davidkelly","tag-dontmissachance","tag-ianbennan","tag-memories","tag-onthisday","tag-sayitnow","tag-sayitoutloud","tag-sunshine","tag-wakingneddevine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}