{"id":10673,"date":"2015-01-28T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/holyrover\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:23:37","slug":"its-your-funeral-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/holyrover\/2015\/01\/28\/its-your-funeral-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Your Funeral. Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We seem to be on a theme of spirituality in aging these days, so in that spirit I offer to you a video recommended by my friend Lucy, who had seen singer Christine Lavin\u00a0in concert recently. 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