{"id":12026,"date":"2007-12-07T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/07\/final-words.html"},"modified":"2007-12-07T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:50:24","slug":"final_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/final_words.html","title":{"rendered":"Final words"},"content":{"rendered":"

An elegy<\/i> is a poem, typically one memorializing and praising the dead or (loosely) one with a mournful and gloomy contemplative tone; it may also be a piece of music of similar topic and tone. A eulogy<\/i> is a speech, formal and elegant in form, in praise of someone recently dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So<\/a>, I guess it’s a eulogy<\/em> I need to write<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Final product<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An elegy is a poem, typically one memorializing and praising the dead or (loosely) one with a mournful and gloomy contemplative tone; it may also be a piece of music…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9266,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/bt06_when_ends.html","url_meta":{"origin":12026,"position":0},"title":"BT06 – When Ends the Blogathon!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Jul-06 6:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, the Blogathon had 219 participants, with 1,777 sponsors pledging over $55,000. 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