{"id":180,"date":"2013-06-26T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:03:06","slug":"funeral-music-and-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/funeral-customs\/funeral-music-and-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral music and readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Words and music at funerals<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Over the years, our team have seen that words and music have the power to bring out emotional reactions at funerals.\u00a0This is why\u00a0they play such an important part at funeral services these days.<\/p>\n<h3>Speeches given at the funeral<\/h3>\n<p>Historically, eulogies were delivered by the priest or vicar giving the service \u2013 but in present day,\u00a0many families now prefer to speak themselves or ask close friends to speak about the person\u2019s life, read poems, or even read out\u00a0something the\u00a0deceased wrote themselves.<\/p>\n<h3>Music for the funeral<\/h3>\n<p>Along with the traditional hymns, many people now prefer to have\u00a0a modern piece\u00a0of music\u00a0played at funerals. Interestingly, the songs chosen are increasingly more contemporary \u2013 and even light-hearted choices are now popular, to try and draw a smile rather than something sorrowful to draw a tear. There\u2019s also a popular trend for live music such as bagpipes, \u00a0Spanish guitars and jazz bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words and music at funerals Over the years, our team have seen that words and music have the power to bring out emotional reactions at funerals.\u00a0This is why\u00a0they play such an important part at funeral services these days. Speeches given at the funeral Historically, eulogies were delivered by the priest or vicar giving the service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-third-level.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadbetter-murphy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}