{"id":30313,"date":"2012-01-16T00:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T00:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/paul_simons_long_spiritual_journey\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T00:35:54","slug":"paul_simons_long_spiritual_journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30313","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon&#39;s long spiritual journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now at 70, he said he has questions about God. In his song, &#8220;The Afterlife,&#8221; he speculates about what happens after death. He imagines waiting in line, like at the Department of Motor Vehicles.<br \/>\nAs the chorus goes: &#8220;You got to fill out a form first and then you wait in the line.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s a serious aspect as well, as the song continues:<br \/>\n&#8220;Face-to-face in the vastness of space\/ Your words disappear\/And you feel like you&#8217;re swimming in an ocean of love\/ And the current is strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Simon-s-long-spiritual-journey-2518854.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now at 70, he said he has questions about God. In his song, &#8220;The Afterlife,&#8221; he speculates about what happens after death. He imagines waiting in line, like at the Department of Motor Vehicles. As the chorus goes: &#8220;You got<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30313\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,132,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-music","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}