{"id":191,"date":"2019-06-05T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstribute.com\/blogs\/?p=191"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:51:50","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes: Let It Be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When documenting my mom\u2019s life story one of the topics she brought up was that she could not stand rock and roll music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said all the songs were bad and she just had to put up with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminded me of the days when we would play loud rock and roll music in the house and at an even louder level outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure we as children were driving her to even more dislike of rock and roll music!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I said to my mom \u201cThere are some rock and roll music songs that have a religious tone\u201d she scowled at me saying \u201cno way!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said \u201cYes! There are several of them. Yet let\u2019s just listen to one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please listen to the words and tell me what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I played<em> \u201cLet it Be\u201d<\/em> &nbsp;by the Beatles and my mom listened to the words in astonishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said \u201cMom, what did you think of the song and would you say it had a religious tone?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She smiled and said \u201cI liked it and it was the first rock and roll song I may have ever really listened to the words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She agreed it had a religious tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on while documenting her life story and the distressing divorce of her first child I reminded her that sometimes in life it is better to \u201c<em>Let it Be<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is at moments and times challenging yet if you<em>&nbsp;\u201cLet it Be\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>you tend to also let emotions go&nbsp;and&nbsp;move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as the song says<em>&nbsp;\u201cMother Mary comes to me&nbsp;speaking words of wisdom: Let it be, let it be\u201d.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;And when the broken hearted people\nliving in the world agree<\/em><br>\n<em>There will be an answer, let it be.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me<\/em><br> <em>Shine until tomorrow, let it be.<\/em><br> <em>I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me<\/em><br> <em>Speaking words of wisdom, let it be\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When documenting my mom\u2019s life story one of the topics she brought up was that she could not stand rock and roll music. She said all the songs were bad and she just had to put up with it. It reminded me of the days when we would play loud rock and roll music in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/behind-the-scenes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behind the Scenes: Let It Be&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.momstribute.com\/company-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}