{"id":5416,"date":"2012-02-05T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2012-02-05T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:14:29","slug":"love-and-death-are-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5416","title":{"rendered":"Love And Death Are In The Air&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/02\/what-we-talk-about-when-were-dying.html\">What We Talk About When We&#8217;re Dying<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/01\/28\/my-faith-what-people-talk-about-before-they-die\/\" target=\"_self\">admits<\/a> that, much of the time, it&#8217;s not God:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mostly, they talk about their families: about their mothers and  fathers, their sons and daughters. They talk about the love they felt,  and the love they gave. \u00a0 Often  they talk about love they did not  receive, or the love they did not know  how to offer, the love they  withheld, or maybe never felt for the ones  they should have loved  unconditionally&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is it you might wonder, that thoughts of death and darkness seem to prevail at this time of year.  The bitter eternal chill of wintertime? \u00a0 The deathly silence of the long dark nights?  Hahahahaha&#8230;  No, silly.  This is the time of year in which we pause before the graveyard of life&#8217;s most magical dream to try once more in abject futility to bury it once and for all.  <em><strong>Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The signs are <em>Everywhere<\/em>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>From: FTD Flowers &lt;FTD@email.ftd.com&gt;\r\nReply-to: FTD@email.ftd.com\r\nMessage-ID: &lt;15857985932.1328433753103@dc1.prod&gt;\r\nSubject: SWEET! From $19.99: Roses with FREE Chocolates*\r\n\r\nShop Best Sellers for Valentine's Day\r\nBelieve in Love Bouquet with Free Chocolate STARTING AT $19.99\r\nTrue Love Valentine Rose Bouquet regular $39.99 SALE $20 Off $19.99\r\nRomantic Dreams Valentine's Day Bouquet regular $49.99 NOW STARTING AT $34.99\r\nBe Still My Heart Valentine Bamboo regular $39.99 NOW STARTING AT $19.99\r\n\r\n*Exceptions Apply:<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they <em>Always<\/em>? \u00a0 Well I&#8217;m here to tell you, Nothing says Love more then a gift of free chocolates, unless its the text message from your soulmate informing you that they&#8217;re seeing someone else now, and would greatly appreciate it if you stopped leaving messages on their answering machine.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be a Fifth Annual Casa del Garrett Valentine&#8217;s Day Poster Contest this year? \u00a0 Well&#8230;I don&#8217;t know&#8230; \u00a0 I mean&#8230;you&#8217;re very nice. \u00a0 But&#8230;let&#8217;s think about it before we take it to the next level. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll call you sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Talk About When We&#8217;re Dying Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, admits that, much of the time, it&#8217;s not God: Mostly, they talk about their families: about their mothers and fathers, their sons and daughters. They talk about the love they felt, and the love they gave. \u00a0 Often they talk about love they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-valentines-day-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}