{"id":1563,"date":"2022-06-10T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1563"},"modified":"2025-02-01T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:50:05","slug":"lifes-work","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/lifes-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"innerContentContainer\">[dflip id=\"4214\" type=\"thumb\" ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AUDIO<\/strong><\/p>\n[audio mp3=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lifes-Work_Audio.mp3\"][\/audio]\n<p><strong>Life&#8217;s Work<br \/>\n<\/strong>Melissa Tien<\/p>\n<p>Sun scattered sky.<br \/>\nRooms shimmering<br \/>\nwith memories.<br \/>\nDreams stealing by<br \/>\nso quietly<br \/>\nthey\u2019re histories.<br \/>\nEarth\u2019s gilded route.<br \/>\nTears plummeting<br \/>\nfrom happiness.<br \/>\nJoy peering out<br \/>\nthrough lovers\u2019 eyes<br \/>\nat future joys.<br \/>\nSecrets long-held, now shared.<br \/>\nFear shuddering, dying<br \/>\na soundless, simple end.<br \/>\nNewborn first breaths, each spared<br \/>\npast agonies, gaping<br \/>\nwith unimpeded awe.<br \/>\nMidnights lived through, roughshod.<br \/>\nHand carrying, tending<br \/>\nthe heavy-weighted heart.<br \/>\nTilling new ground, though flawed<br \/>\nthoughts ruin us, turning<br \/>\nour efforts into sand.<br \/>\nImperfections in the marble.<br \/>\nFirst breathless dreamful exchanges<br \/>\nbetween lovers, makers, soldiers.<br \/>\nDisappointments by the jarful<br \/>\neach spoiled summer ambition<br \/>\nSours slowly, turning potent<br \/>\nKeeping clean and limber spirits.<br \/>\nDeep sorrows, longings that linger<br \/>\nPooling past and future where it\u2019s<br \/>\nlife\u2019s work to locate the mystery<br \/>\nof the current whirring moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1905,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28,42,54],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1563","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-baritone","7":"product_cat-individual-songs","8":"product_cat-joseph-rubinstein","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-variable"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}