{"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Qz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3226,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-handshakes-offered-at-the-most-tragic-funerals\/","url_meta":{"origin":3259,"position":0},"title":"No Handshakes Offered at the Most Tragic Funerals","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dedicated to and in memory of those who killed themselves as they could not cope with austerity and banks taking their houses. 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