{"id":129,"date":"2005-12-22T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2005\/12\/22\/twelve-months-and-a-day\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T06:01:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T11:01:41","slug":"twelve-months-and-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2005\/12\/22\/twelve-months-and-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve months and a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving in the car and I had on THE WORLD from PRI and Lisa Mullins was interviewing Aine Minogue, a Celtic harpist who has released a cd of Celtic lamentations.  And I realized they were talking to me about my grief. She said that universally cultures grieve for a year and then move on after twelve months and a day. Then she read a beautiful poem called <a href=\"http:\/\/theworld.org\/globalhits\/2005\/12\/22.shtml\">BLESSINGS<\/a> by John O&#8217;Donohoe. Then, as I heard the poem, I knew it was God.  Brendan recorded the podcast on a cd for me.  I will listen to it often.<\/p>\n<p>\n I&#8217;m staying at Deb&#8217;s and I was flipping through the direct tv channels and there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103129\/\">TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY<\/a> again. The movie that haunts and comforts me. The first time I saw it was after Wayne had died and I couldn&#8217;t sleep and at 4 a.m. I turned on the Disney Channel and there were Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman and it all made sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving in the car and I had on THE WORLD from PRI and Lisa Mullins was interviewing Aine Minogue, a Celtic harpist who has released a cd of Celtic lamentations. And I realized they were talking to me about my grief. She said that universally cultures grieve for a year and then move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brendan","category-joe","category-wayne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}