{"id":10760,"date":"2007-11-25T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/11\/25\/10760.html"},"modified":"2007-11-25T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:22:04","slug":"candlelight-memorial-service-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/11\/25\/candlelight-memorial-service-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight memorial service, Dec. 6, Palo Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a grief-support center in Palo Alto called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kara-grief.org\/\">Kara<\/a>; every year, they have a memorial gathering, \"invit[ing] the community to join together to remember loved ones who have died.\" Someone who works there wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The event features music, invited speakers, and a very moving candlelight closing that involves the entire audience of several hundred people. Although there's an element of faith in some speakers' material, it's not a church-y event and all are welcome: pass it along if you have friends who might appreciate this event.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here's the event listing from the Kara website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Come Light a Candle In Memory of a Loved One<\/p>\n<p>At an Interfaith Gathering of Remembrance<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitypaloalto.org\/contact\/directions.html\">Unity Palo Alto Community Church<\/a>, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm told there will be \"fellowship and refreshments\" after the service.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, call Kara at 650-321-5272.<\/p>\n<p>I haven't gone to this event in the past--didn't think I could cope with it. But I'm vaguely thinking I might go this year. We'll see.<\/p>\n<p>Btw, Kara has an excellent list of recommendations on \"<a href=\"http:\/\/kara-grief.org\/HelpDocs\/HowToHelp.htm\">how to help someone who is suffering from loss<\/a>\"; if you know anyone who's dealing with grief or loss, I strongly recommend reading that page.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a grief-support center in Palo Alto called Kara; every year, they have a memorial gathering, &#8220;invit[ing] the community to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}