{"id":2752,"date":"2010-05-23T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-23T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T11:20:39","slug":"what-song-would-you-want-played-at-your-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-song-would-you-want-played-at-your-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"What Song Would You Want Played at Your Funeral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>mBblBEjp2Jc]<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a little morbid, like me, or a lot morbid, like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popeater.com\/2010\/01\/22\/jeff-conaway-planning-his-funeral-girlfriend-says\/\" target=_blank>Jeff Conaway<\/a><\/strong>, maybe you&#8217;ve considered what song you&#8217;d like played at your funeral. Just a couple of weeks ago, for some reason, I began thinking about this. I&#8217;ve yet to reach a decision, but I may do so through this thread. How about you? Have you considered what song you would like played at your funeral?<\/p>\n<p>I was at Citizens Bank Park last year, when legendary and beloved broadcaster <strong>Harry Kalas<\/strong> was memorialized. As his casket was led through a line of Phillies players and into the hearse, Simon and Garfunkle&#8217;s &#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; was played. Kalas&#8217; sons set it up, saying that it was his favorites on their old car 8-track player and the song their dad requested to have played when he died. I&#8217;m not a big Simon and Garfunkle fan or that song, but it was touching. <\/p>\n<p><em>How do you want to touch your loved ones and admirers when you&#8217;re put to rest?<\/em> Choose now so that the task of selecting your song is not left to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-arcana-speed-round-edition#c41047\" target=_blank>Shawn Love<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mBblBEjp2Jc] If you&#8217;re a little morbid, like me, or a lot morbid, like Jeff Conaway, maybe you&#8217;ve considered what song you&#8217;d like played at your funeral. Just a couple of weeks ago, for some reason, I began thinking about this. I&#8217;ve yet to reach a decision, but I may do so through this thread. How <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-song-would-you-want-played-at-your-funeral\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}