{"id":2363,"date":"2014-02-26T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2014-05-28T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:13:48","slug":"too-good-not-to-share-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Too good not to share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/\">Borepatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A91pY1L9meQ<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some clarification required. The traditional New Orleans Funeral with Music consists of two parts. It starts with a somber procession to the cemetery, transporting the Guest of Honour to the planting* ceremony, followed by a helluva big party on the way back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Just a Closer Walk with Thee<\/em> comes in two parts, one suited for the mourning and one suited for the party. Google will give you plenty versions of it, the one I&#8217;ve always liked is by The Preservation Hall Jazz Band &#8212; I might even prefer (blasphemy!)\u00a0 (the jury is still out) the second half to that of Clapton et al. Not that it matters, these guys are stunningly good.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Tanya hates it :-)<\/p>\n<p>* In reality, tradition tends to favour above-ground tombs in New Orleans, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experienceneworleans.com\/deadcity1.html\">water table<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Borepatch. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A91pY1L9meQ Maybe some clarification required. The traditional New Orleans Funeral with Music consists of two parts. It starts with a somber procession to the cemetery, transporting the Guest of Honour to the planting* ceremony, followed by a helluva big party on the way back. Just a Closer Walk with Thee comes in two parts, one suited for the mourning and one suited for the party. Google will give you plenty versions of it, the one I&#8217;ve always liked is by The Preservation Hall Jazz Band &#8212; I might even prefer (blasphemy!)\u00a0 (the jury is still out) the second&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farting-around"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}