{"id":831,"date":"2009-02-22T23:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2011-01-21T20:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T03:58:46","slug":"okuribito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"okuribito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/okuribito.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-833\" title=\"okuribito\" src=\"http:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/okuribito.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>goodbye to u, our beloved mere<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve tended us with your loving care<br \/>\nyou taught us how to strive and dare<br \/>\nbad company to avoid, bargirls to beware<br \/>\nearn our keep, make our mark and not to swear<\/p>\n<p>goodbye my mere, it&#8217;s hard to say goodbye<span> <\/span><br \/>\nbut a life confined is no life, leaving u high and dry <span> <\/span><br \/>\nnow that the cold nip is in the air<br \/>\nnorthern lights beckon, snow is everywhere<br \/>\nnow we see pure heart a twinkling star in pure land over there<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/footsteps-in-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-832\" title=\"footsteps-in-snow\" src=\"http:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/footsteps-in-snow-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/footsteps-in-snow-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/footsteps-in-snow.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>we will be known forever by the tracks we leave&#8230;..american indian proverb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>goodbye to u, our beloved mere you&#8217;ve tended us with your loving care you taught us how to strive and dare bad company to avoid, bargirls to beware earn our keep, make our mark and not to swear goodbye my mere, it&#8217;s hard to say goodbye but a life confined is no life, leaving u [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirley-kwan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}