{"id":366,"date":"2023-11-07T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/?p=366"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:42:15","slug":"the-day-you-said-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/the-day-you-said-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day You Said Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20230801_200921810-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20230801_200921810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20230801_200921810-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20230801_200921810-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20230801_200921810-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Labyrinth at Joyful Journeys Hot Springs, CO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Willy-Grigg-You-Said-Goodbye-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a song I wrote August 1, 2023 at Joyful Journeys Hot Spring in Colorado. A couple hours earlier, we had found out that Jenny&#8217;s Aunt Patsy had died.  I was meditating about losing people I love. I was thinking of a memory of my father, in a hospital bed, saying he wasn&#8217;t afraid of dying, but he didn&#8217;t want to leave us behind. Saying goodbye is sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Day You Said Goodbye by Willy Grigg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> You held my hand, you sadly smiled<br> You turned your face to cry<br> You knew how much I loved you then<br> The day you said goodbye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You didn&#8217;t want to leave me<br>\nYou didn&#8217;t want to go<br>\nYou had to take a journey<br>\nDown a dark and lonely road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And maybe we will meet again<br>\nBeneath a different sky<br>\nYou hold my hand like you did then<br>\nThe day you said goodbye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song I wrote August 1, 2023 at Joyful Journeys Hot Spring in Colorado. A couple hours earlier, we had found out that Jenny&#8217;s Aunt Patsy had died. I was meditating about losing people I love. I was thinking of a memory of my father, in a hospital bed, saying he wasn&#8217;t afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs-by-willy-grigg","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willygrigg.com\/wpsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}