{"id":10644,"date":"2011-11-29T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T05:20:04","slug":"another-funeral-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/another-funeral-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Funeral Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10645\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/935.jpg?resize=115%2C158\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/935.jpg?w=191&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/935.jpg?resize=69%2C96&amp;ssl=1 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A blog reader urgently wanted to use the second poem at <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/the-famous-funeral-poem\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/the-famous-funeral-poem<\/a> for a real funeral, and asked for the author. Wondering if the idea was called off because it wasn&#8217;t from someone famous and deceased&#8230; It&#8217;s interesting how things from anyone seem more valuable the instant the person is gone.<\/p>\n<p>But I can understand why this is so. First, the value increases because the person is no longer able to churn up new works. Second, the person&#8217;s life can then be deemed more or less faultless enough to be worth quoting from. Third, the person is currently a &#8216;nobody&#8217;. (Condolences again, to the bereaved. Amituofo.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nDead Teachers&#8217; Society<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=1467\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=1467<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog reader urgently wanted to use the second poem at https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/the-famous-funeral-poem for a real funeral, and asked for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-death","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}