{"id":254,"date":"2002-04-09T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-10T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=254"},"modified":"2002-04-09T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-10T03:51:00","slug":"strength-dignity-and-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/21st-century\/strength-dignity-and-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength, Dignity, and Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;Strength, dignity and laughter: three great gifts which we honour and celebrate today.&#8221; Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey , speaking at the Queen Mum&#8217;s funeral. April 9, 2002\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p> I have spent this morning watching the funeral of the Queen Mum. I am certainly no royalist but goodness me the English surely can do ceremonial and do it well.&#8221; &#8212; his Mum<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nLike most Americans, I guess, I&#8217;m far more fascinated with royalty than you Brits. Maybe in this country, where &#8220;all men are (supposedly) created equal,&#8221; there is a strange attraction to those who are not. And, having grown up Catholic, I appreciate that the purpose of pomp and ceremony is to elevate us, momentarily, from our common lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elevating us above the mundane. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/21st-century\/strength-dignity-and-laughter\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,124,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}