{"id":1381,"date":"2020-02-18T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:09:01","slug":"an-act-of-love-and-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/an-act-of-love-and-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"An Act of Love and Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1384 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2509-1009x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2509-1009x1024.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2509-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2509-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2509.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re familiar with my book,\u00a0<em>The Dutiful Daughter\u2019s Guide to Caregiving,\u00a0<\/em>you\u2019ve probably read the chapter called,\u00a0<em>Planning Mom\u2019s Funeral With Barbra Streisand\u2019s Help. <\/em> My <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/planning-moms-funeral-with-barbra-streisands-help\/\">blog post<\/a><\/strong> of the same name touched a cord with caregivers everywhere and has been shared numerous times, and posted on other blogs, since the book came out in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently invited to record an audio version of that story as a service of our public library system. It\u2019s just a few minutes long, and, as I state in the introduction, it was my way of initiating a difficult conversation by reframing it as an act of love and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1381-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Judith-Henry-2-8-2020-Planning-Moms-Funeral-with-Brba-Streisands-help.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Judith-Henry-2-8-2020-Planning-Moms-Funeral-with-Brba-Streisands-help.mp3\">https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Judith-Henry-2-8-2020-Planning-Moms-Funeral-with-Brba-Streisands-help.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re familiar with my book,\u00a0The Dutiful Daughter\u2019s Guide to Caregiving,\u00a0you\u2019ve probably read the chapter called,\u00a0Planning Mom\u2019s Funeral With Barbra Streisand\u2019s Help. My blog post of the same name touched a cord with caregivers everywhere and has been shared numerous times, and posted on other blogs, since the book came out in 2015. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}