{"id":236,"date":"2005-05-03T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T00:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2005-05-03T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T00:25:33","slug":"elenas-funeral-aum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/03\/elenas-funeral-aum\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena&#039;s Funeral.  Aum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to Elena&rsquo;s funeral at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountmadonna.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Madonna Center<\/a>.  It was a Vedic ceremony, very nice, very profound.  When my time comes, I hope that, like Elena, I&rsquo;m buried somewhere far from the sound of cars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/om.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I was struck by a sculpture of the holy word Om or Aum on the grounds.  I asked about it and was told that that the three parts of the symbol stand for three sounds, that is, the big part like a 3 is the A; the wavy part on the right is the U, and the bowl with the sphere on the top is the M.  Aum is, like, the sound that started up the whole universe.  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Aum.<\/p>\n<p>AAAAUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went to Elena&rsquo;s funeral at the Mount Madonna Center. It was a Vedic ceremony, very nice, very profound. When my time comes, I hope that, like Elena, I&rsquo;m buried somewhere far from the sound of cars. I was struck by a sculpture of the holy word Om or Aum on the grounds. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}