{"id":116448,"date":"2016-04-21T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116448"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:09:06","slug":"dearly-beloved-we-are-gathered-here-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116448","title":{"rendered":"Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince.jpg\" alt=\"prince\" width=\"523\" height=\"597\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-88x100.jpg 88w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-175x200.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/prince-350x400.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI am too shocked and crushed to even say much. He was the music of my youth. I lost my virginity to a Prince song, because that&#8217;s what you did in the late 80s. Even if you didn&#8217;t put it on specifically for the big moment, Prince would have been on the radio ANYWAY. He was the biggest genius who was actually active during my lifetime. If you were in high school in the 80s, he was everything. He IS everything. He was a superstar MAESTRO. I&#8217;m in total shock. <\/p>\n<p>At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004 ceremony, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison&#8217;s son and a host of others performed &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps.&#8221; And that&#8217;s awesome enough, right? <\/p>\n<p>But wait for it. Wait for it. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6SFNW5F8K9Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My cousin Liam said on Facebook in regards to this guitar solo by Prince:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone onstage here is completely astonished and delighted. Look at George&#8217;s son Dani&#8217;s expressions. Widely claimed as the greatest guitar solo ever played. Which is of course ridiculous as that&#8217;s done every night somewhere from someone&#8217;s bedroom to a dingy dive to a soccer stadium, but this NIGHT, HERE, it was done by Prince. And it is incredible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Epic. You keep thinking it couldn&#8217;t possibly get more epic &#8230; and then, of course, it DOES. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t accept this. I am here in Albuquerque for my film premiere and doing interviews and going to parties with people I met 5 minutes ago &#8230; and all we&#8217;re talking about is Prince. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am too shocked and crushed to even say much. He was the music of my youth. I lost my virginity to a Prince song, because that&#8217;s what you did in the late 80s. Even if you didn&#8217;t put it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=116448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[2453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116456,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116448\/revisions\/116456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}