{"id":232,"date":"2016-02-09T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/?p=232"},"modified":"2016-02-13T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:40:10","slug":"story-2-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/uncategorized\/story-2-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"Story 2: Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sort-of grandpa loves the poet Robert Service, and every summer at our family reunion he offers an grandchild $50 if they can recite the poem \u201cThe Cremation of Sam McGee\u201d by heart in front of our huge family (Irish Catholics have lots of babies. They also name them after themselves so we\u2019re all Jon and Mary and Paul and Theresa). You get your name on a plaque afterwards. Now we all know this damn poem and we recite it together like some weird cult. <em>There are strange things done in the midnight sun\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PDOnnpdGMz8\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/PDOnnpdGMz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-357 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/IMG_0950-1-e1455033909842-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0950 (1)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xXuOwVjvVQE\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xXuOwVjvVQE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/IMG_0954-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0954 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/IMG_0954-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/IMG_0954-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-232-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/McGee.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/McGee.m4a\">http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/McGee.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-232-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Howl.m4a?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Howl.m4a\">http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Howl.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-232-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Stanza.m4a?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Stanza.m4a\">http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/files\/2016\/02\/Stanza.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sort-of grandpa loves the poet Robert Service, and every summer at our family reunion he offers an grandchild $50 if they can recite the poem \u201cThe Cremation of Sam McGee\u201d by heart in front of our huge family (Irish Catholics have lots of babies. They also name them after themselves so we\u2019re all Jon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/uncategorized\/story-2-cremation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Story 2: Cremation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}