{"id":560,"date":"2008-10-05T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2008-10-07T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T01:25:49","slug":"serenaded-by-over-50-men-on-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Serenaded by Over 50 Men on Friday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday evening some friends and I decided to have a picnic at Saluda Shoals Park at a place by the river called Eagles Arrie.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, the weather was perfect and fall was in the air. There was a weekend of activities planned called Unearth<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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When we arrived, there were at least 50 men in the Palmetto Master Singers preparing to sing a variety of crowd pleasing songs.\u00c2\u00a0 They serenaded us for over an hour as we sipped on wine and enjoyed appetizers. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Friends were there from other areas of my life as well.\u00c2\u00a0 It was like a homecoming of sorts, complete with fall flowers, haystacks, and a well lit path in the field as well as an equally inviting one through the wooded area back to the vehicles.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not only were we serenaded at the river, but at dinner afterwards our waiter sang his version of Josh Groban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s You Raise me Up<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been awhile since a man sang to me. Friday night made up for that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you, ladies, but men singing to me is worth a great deal.\u00c2\u00a0 There is just nothing better than a man who can sing and who shares it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I do, also, appreciate a man who knows he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sing and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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So there, I guess that means I appreciate men who both can and can not sing…for different reasons, of course!\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you appreciate good singing wherever you find it…be it on a recording, by the river on a Friday night or by a waiter in a restaurant.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday evening some friends and I decided to have a picnic at Saluda Shoals Park at a place by the river called Eagles Arrie.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, the weather was perfect and fall was in the air. There was a weekend of activities planned called Unearth. \u00c2\u00a0 When we arrived, there were at least 50 men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-food-and-drink","category-living-life-to-the-fullest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}