{"id":1569,"date":"2022-06-10T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1569"},"modified":"2025-02-01T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:53:07","slug":"seeking-you","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/seeking-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking You"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"innerContentContainer\">[dflip id=\"4218\" type=\"thumb\" ]<br \/>\n<\/span><strong><br \/>\nAUDIO<\/strong><\/p>\n[audio mp3=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Seeking-You.mp3\"][\/audio]\n<p>Matthew Burns, bass-baritone<br \/>\nMila Henry, piano<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twenty-Five Years<\/strong><br \/>\nJason Kim<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years of marriage,<br \/>\nTwenty-five years of strife.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years of dinners<br \/>\nIn silence with my wife.<\/p>\n<p>Another blank stare for me, dear?<br \/>\nAs if I wasn\u2019t here, dear.<br \/>\nAnother strong drink for you, dear?<br \/>\nAs if you won\u2019t collapse, dear.<\/p>\n<p>Another ten minutes of tea with me?<br \/>\nAs you think hard how to flee.<br \/>\nAnother week at the beach I agree<br \/>\nBest spent absentee.<\/p>\n<p>Are you there, really there, really there,<br \/>\nwife? Are you ready, face the facts, the facts, wife?<\/p>\n<p>A love fallen behind,<br \/>\nA home not intertwined\u2014<br \/>\nTalk to me.<br \/>\nPlease, talk to me.<br \/>\nCry with me.<br \/>\nPlease, cry with me.<br \/>\nDie with me.<br \/>\nYou said you\u2019d die with me.<br \/>\nBut instead why don\u2019t you lie with me. Let\u2019s<br \/>\nmake our twenty-five<br \/>\nInto seventy-five.<br \/>\nAnd make a new vow<br \/>\nOf a life, yes,<br \/>\nFull of life, now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full of Life Now<br \/>\n<\/strong>Walt Whitman (1819-1892)<\/p>\n<p>FULL of life, now, compact, visible,<br \/>\nI, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,<br \/>\nTo one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence,<br \/>\nTo you, yet unborn, these, seeking you.<\/p>\n<p>When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible;<br \/>\nNow it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me;<br \/>\nFancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your comrade;<br \/>\nBe it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1904,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[47,42,54],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1569","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-bass-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\/1569","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\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}