{"id":3570,"date":"2010-12-24T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:43:05","slug":"hope-youre-safe-and-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2010\/12\/hope-youre-safe-and-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope You&#8217;re Safe and Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/51035690108@N01\/708776\" title=\"Temptation\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/708776_109fa2982e_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/56412930@N00\/314330251\" title=\"Persephone's Pomegranate seeds\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/314330251_3c0e9b4472_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This song about Persephone is haunting me, seeping into the interstices between all my favorite Christmas music. I think I&#8217;ll have to add it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/beammeon.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/christmas-music-lights-cheer-love.html\">list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"350\" height=\"221\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QrXESpT0l-Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QrXESpT0l-Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"221\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Persephone&#8221; by Kula Shaker<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deep below the world Persephone<br \/>\nSings of love forgotten<br \/>\nCalling out across the river &#8211; Persephone<\/p>\n<p>Deep below the world Persephone<br \/>\nWaits upon her rescue<br \/>\nMother Nature&#8217;s only daughter &#8211; Persephone<\/p>\n<p>She saw the dawn with the light in her hair<br \/>\nTwisted and torn she was taken from there<br \/>\nNow she&#8217;s down down down<\/p>\n<p>Oh my dear Persephone<br \/>\nYour heart sings a melody<br \/>\nHope you&#8217;re safe and sound<br \/>\nunderground<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s gone, the world is calling<br \/>\nCalling for her loved one<br \/>\nCalling out across the river &#8211; Persephone<\/p>\n<p>She saw the dawn with the light in her hair<br \/>\nTwisted and torn at the sight of her there<br \/>\nNow she&#8217;s down down down<\/p>\n<p>Oh my dear Persephone,<br \/>\nYour heart sings a melody<br \/>\nHope you&#8217;re safe and sound<br \/>\nunderground<\/p>\n<p>See how the winter has frozen the poor<br \/>\nCome back Persephone and be reborn<br \/>\nCome back my darling,<br \/>\nWe miss you, my darling<br \/>\nReturn turn turn, return<\/p>\n<p>Deep below the world &#8211; Persephone<br \/>\nSings of love forgotten<br \/>\nHear her song, the willow weeping<br \/>\nPersephone &#8211; Persephone<\/p>\n<p>Oh my dear Persephone<br \/>\nYour heart sings a melody<br \/>\nHope you&#8217;re safe and sound<br \/>\nYes we hope you&#8217;re safe and sound<\/p>\n<p>Safe and sound<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/34961066@N00\/2181264527\" title=\"Proserpine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2181264527_4c9e380478_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge &#8211; myth is more potent than history &#8211; dreams are more powerful than facts &#8211; hope always triumphs over experience &#8211; laughter is the cure for grief &#8211; love is stronger than death.&#8221; ~ Robert Fulghum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/35926259@N03\/4315192251\" title=\"Trees sky\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/4315192251_9760236638.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song about Persephone is haunting me, seeping into the interstices between all my favorite Christmas music. I think I&#8217;ll have to add it to the list. &#8220;Persephone&#8221; by Kula Shaker Deep below the world Persephone Sings of love forgotten Calling out across the river &#8211; Persephone Deep below the world Persephone Waits upon her rescue Mother Nature&#8217;s only daughter &#8211; Persephone She saw the dawn with the light in her hair Twisted and torn she was taken from there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2010\/12\/hope-youre-safe-and-sound\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,268,8],"tags":[5826,383,5825,5823,1574,1471,5824,5828,5827],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music","category-religion","tag-calling","tag-christmas","tag-greek-mythology","tag-mother-nature","tag-mythology","tag-nature","tag-persephone","tag-proserpine","tag-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}