{"id":3259,"date":"2016-11-08T00:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2016-11-08T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:40:24","slug":"the-last-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-last-handshake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The Last Handshake: Tullamore lost another Past Master today: heaven is all the richer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Closed as begun in brotherly love
\nIn harmony home our ways we make
\nLittle think regarless of each others age
\nThis just may be our last handshake<\/p>\n

Sometimes that it is, so let it be
\nGlad we enjoyed our fraternity within
\nRemember our passed brother till we meet again
\nWe worship and mourn with his kith and kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Closed as begun in brotherly love In harmony home our ways we make Little think regarless of each others age This just may be our last handshake Sometimes that it is, so let it be Glad we enjoyed our fraternity within Remember our passed brother till we meet again We …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155,45],"tags":[2354,47,3294,2358],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-freemasonry","tag-death","tag-freemason","tag-the-last-handshake","tag-tullamore","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Qz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":383,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/busy-september-for-tullamore-rhymers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3259,"position":0},"title":"Busy September for Tullamore Rhymers","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th August 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"Its shaping up to be a busy Septemnber in 2014 for the Tullamore Rhymers Club, with Scene of the Rhyme on tonight, the Offaly Culture Night launch tomorrow at 3pm, the Camillus Boland Fundraiser Night after that at 8pm or so, and then a busy few weeks of which the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/scene-of-the-rhyme-welcomes-gene-barry-to-tullamore\/","url_meta":{"origin":3259,"position":1},"title":"Scene of the Rhyme welcomes Gene Barry to Tullamore","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"25th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Scene of the Rhyme features Blackwater Poets founder Gene Barry to Tullamore. 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