{"id":75800,"date":"2021-06-19T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75800"},"modified":"2021-06-19T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T22:01:07","slug":"a-song-our-dad-used-to-sing-accompanied-by-our-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/06\/19\/a-song-our-dad-used-to-sing-accompanied-by-our-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"A song our dad used to sing&#8230;accompanied by our mom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A PERFECT DAY (1909)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Words and Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you come to the end of a perfect day,<br \/>\nAnd you sit alone with your thought,<br \/>\nWhile the chimes ring out with a carol gay,<br \/>\nFor the joy that the day has brought,<br \/>\nDo you think what the end of a perfect day<br \/>\nCan mean to tired heart,<br \/>\nWhen the sun goes down with a flaming ray,<br \/>\nAnd the dear hearts have to part?<br \/>\nWell, this is the end of a perfect day,<br \/>\nNear the end of a journey, too,<br \/>\nBut it leaves a thought that is big and strong,<br \/>\nWith a wish that is kind and true.<br \/>\nFor mem&#8217;ry has painted this perfect day<br \/>\nWith colors that never fade,<br \/>\nAnd we find at the end of a perfect day,<br \/>\nThe soul of a friend we&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/audio\/DanielKChristian-Perfect-Day.m4a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s our dad&#8217;s version of it&#8230;which is nicely accompanied by our mom.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75826 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dad-and-Doc-Carter-2.jpg\" alt=\"Doc Carter and our dad -- 1970\" width=\"325\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dad-and-Doc-Carter-2.jpg 325w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dad-and-Doc-Carter-2-128x150.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PERFECT DAY (1909) Words and Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946) When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay, For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,500,256,248,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-music","category-relationships","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75800"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75832,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75800\/revisions\/75832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}