{"id":2999,"date":"2017-04-17T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2017-11-26T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T03:28:37","slug":"viking-funeral-for-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/04\/17\/viking-funeral-for-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Funeral for My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Viking Funeral to mark the one-year anniversary of my Father’s death, April 17, 2017.<\/p>\n

My father, who was a community college teacher, raced on friends’ sailboats for most of his life. And he mused now and again about having a Viking Funeral.<\/p>\n

So I spent the past couple days building a 4-foot-long Viking ship out of cardboard and paper and tape and string. Then with a small group of friends in attendance, I burned the vessel (no human remains were included) at a secluded Massachusetts beach at sunset.<\/p>\n

(Photos copyright by Kari Percival and Greg Cook, 2017.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Viking funeral, April 17, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Viking Funeral to mark the one-year anniversary of my Father’s death, April 17, 2017. My father, who was a community college teacher, raced on friends’ sailboats for most of his life. And he mused now and again about having a Viking Funeral. So I spent the past couple days building a 4-foot-long Viking ship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,119,109,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}