{"id":141,"date":"2011-11-14T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-11-14T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:22:40","slug":"to-be-read-at-my-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/to-be-read-at-my-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"To be read at my funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Don&#8217;t come to my funeral and holler<br \/>\nAnd don&#8217;t buy me bundles of flowers<br \/>\nI prefer now to follow the life force<br \/>\nSo bury me where there are showers<br \/>\n<!--more-->In a forest, some glade, where sweet solitude reigns<br \/>\nPay homage quietly and go<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want some headstone carved by child labour<br \/>\nNobody else needs to know<br \/>\nThat I came and trod for a lifetime<br \/>\nThe sod that was once rich and good<br \/>\nIn 60 short years how we&#8217;ve changed all of that<br \/>\nPolluted this fine stretch of wood<br \/>\nAnd thats all thats left of a forest<br \/>\nThat swept through our great Countryside<br \/>\nI beg you don&#8217;t burn me in some ghastly oven<br \/>\nIn my carboard box I now hide<br \/>\nTo wait for the scampering diners<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll strip me of flesh skin and fat<br \/>\nTo the Rats and the Maggots<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of the faggots<br \/>\nAt least I now know where I&#8217;m at<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t come to my funeral and holler<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t dress up in black and shed tears<br \/>\nThose of you good to me when I was living<br \/>\nYour in my thoughts, dearest dears<br \/>\nHeaven awaits those believers<br \/>\nParadise came as my breath<br \/>\nStopped, I am gone and I beg you<br \/>\nTo remember my life not my death<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t come to my funeral and holler And don&#8217;t buy me bundles of flowers I prefer now to follow the life force So bury me where there are showers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-dying","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}