{"id":8793,"date":"2009-06-07T06:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2009-06-07T06:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T13:52:21","slug":"unchained-melody-at-heavens-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8793\/unchained-melody-at-heavens-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained Melody at Heaven&#8217;s Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending time in a hospital as the mother of a patient, but this is not about transparency. You can send a good thought or well-wish in our direction, and I will truly appreciate it, but I&#8217;m not here to petition for sympathy or prayers, and I&#8217;m not here to share my personal life. <\/p>\n<p>So much of my life includes a musical soundtrack of some sort or another and I&#8217;m always selfishly sharing them here mostly because I often struggle with words- music can say what I cannot, so I&#8217;m posting a remarkable clip from a movie that is about property rights, but also about independence and passion for life- it&#8217;s very appropriate for this real estate blog. Bloodhounds know about living life with passion: Purposeful life as defined only by our independent selves, and I find that life in a children&#8217;s hospital is very similar: Raw, painful, staggeringly beautiful, and always remarkable. <\/p>\n<p>Today is Sunday, a day of the week that might have you contemplating higher thoughts, or the meaning of life, or might have you preparing to conduct serious business. Today, for four minutes, a break from real estate, a respite from the hard times in life, to give yourself over to an unbridled celebratory lust for life.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IiNlthlz1d8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending time in a hospital as the mother of a patient, but this is not about transparency. You can send a good thought or well-wish in our direction, and I will truly appreciate it, but I&#8217;m not here to petition for sympathy or prayers, and I&#8217;m not here to share my personal life. 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