{"id":2930,"date":"2010-01-19T19:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2010-01-20T22:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T03:33:41","slug":"voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/19\/voice\/","title":{"rendered":"voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sweet secrets of our country<br \/>\nis that there are so many French-Canadians<br \/>\nwith Scottish and Irish surnames.<br \/>\nKate McGarrigle and her sister Anna<br \/>\nblended their harmonies as naturally as<br \/>\nbilingual-Celtic butterflies<br \/>\nmight explore an outdoor kitchen.<!--more--><br \/>\nOccasionally seeing Anna browsing<br \/>\nthe aisles of our local grocery store<br \/>\nis as natural as grooving to a McGarrigle CD<br \/>\non the way home. Their music<br \/>\nand Martha&#8217;s and Rufus&#8217;s is part of<br \/>\nwhat we feel when we feel about our lives.<br \/>\nNow Kate is gone, and the music changes.<br \/>\nEach note, each harmony, carries with it<br \/>\nan edge that is a little sharper,<br \/>\nineffably more true: a sweet public secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the death of Kate McGarrigle. (#1035) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/19\/voice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,416],"tags":[129,87,162,1002,878,315,879,182],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-beauty","tag-death","tag-elegy","tag-family","tag-kate-mcgarrigle","tag-loss","tag-mcgarrigle-sisters","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}