{"id":1872,"date":"2012-03-20T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2012-03-19T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:47:58","slug":"the-music-of-the-way-we-fall-all-of-this-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/the-music-of-the-way-we-fall-all-of-this-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The music of <i>The Way We Fall<\/i> &#8211; &#8220;All Of This Past&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Song number eight on <i>The Way We Fall<\/i>&#8216;s unofficial soundtrack is Sarah Bettens&#8217; &#8220;All Of This Past&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"400\" height=\"301\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y2zRaSeG5g0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y2zRaSeG5g0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Keeping with the chronological pattern, to me &#8220;All Of This Past&#8221; represents the beginning of the Mortality section of the novel.  Kaelyn is coming to grips with being alive when so many have died (&#8220;I like it here\/But it scares me to death\/There is nothing here&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;And I have searched for the reason to go on\/I&#8217;ve tried and I&#8217;ve tried\/But it&#8217;s taking me so long&#8221;).  She&#8217;s thinking about the past (&#8220;All of this over and gone\/And never coming back\/All of this forgotten\/Not by me&#8221;), but also trying to move beyond it, to prove to herself that she deserves to be there (&#8220;Hope is always fear\/For the pain it may cost&#8230;&#8221;  &#8220;I can hear myself singing that song\/Over and over until it belongs to me&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a melancholy song, but I can here moments of hope in it, like the glimmers of hope Kaelyn is starting to feel again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song number eight on The Way We Fall&#8216;s unofficial soundtrack is Sarah Bettens&#8217; &#8220;All Of This Past&#8221;: Keeping with the chronological pattern, to me &#8220;All Of This Past&#8221; represents the beginning of the Mortality section of the novel. Kaelyn is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/the-music-of-the-way-we-fall-all-of-this-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}