{"id":3159,"date":"2010-09-25T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2010-09-25T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T15:17:23","slug":"cemetery-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery Visits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live across the street from a cemetery.  And, over the years, I can say one thing; no one visits the graves of anyone who has been dead for more than 50 years. Oh, the veterans groups may come in and put a flag on the grave of their fallen comrades, but, after 50 years, no one remembers them.<\/p>\n<p>My mother, bless her heart, used to spend days looking for the graves of great &#8220;what evers&#8221;. More often than not, she couldn&#8217;t find the cemetery.  And if she did, she couldn&#8217;t find the grave.  And she did all of this just so she could plant a geranium on the grave site.<\/p>\n<p>I always wondered if she did this just to make amends for how poorly she treated the rest of her family?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we do not remember the names of great aunt and uncle&#8230;..  And, we certainly don&#8217;t know where they are buried.  And so, while my mothers efforts were valiant, ultimately, no one remembers .  Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live across the street from a cemetery. And, over the years, I can say one thing; no one visits the graves of anyone who has been dead for more than 50 years. Oh, the veterans groups may come in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=3159\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-OX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}