{"id":726,"date":"2008-02-25T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=726"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:53:43","slug":"my-first-funeral-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"My First Funeral Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting that the first funeral service I attended was of someone I barely knew. Charles Hamilton, also known as Chuck Hamilton, bass singer of the Oratorio Society of New York had passed away at the age of 71.<\/p>\n<p>The service was held at the Riverside Church. Great hall.<\/p>\n<p>We, the few volunteers from OSNY sang Mozart&#39;s Ave Verum Corpus, I had my whole part memorized.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Robert Coleman gave a remarkable quote I cannot forget at the end during the benediction:<\/p>\n<p><em>Live on your days remembering these:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Work like you don&#39;t need money,<br \/>Love like you have never been hurt,<br \/>Sing like no one is listening,<br \/>Dance like no one is watching,<br \/>Live like you are in heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting that the first funeral service I attended was of someone I barely knew. Charles Hamilton, also known as Chuck Hamilton, bass singer of the Oratorio Society of New York had passed away at the age of 71. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}