{"id":421,"date":"2008-09-06T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T03:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-09-06T22:06:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T03:06:22","slug":"cemetery-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you walked around a cemetery? Funerals don’t count. I’m talking about a conscious effort to linger and observe. Look at the headstones, the names, dates, relationships and epitaphs. The stories are amazing. Here are two from the Union – Flick Cemetery outside of Benton Ridge, OH.<\/p>\n

\"Robert
\nRobert E. Walter\/Union – Flick (Tawa) Cemetery – September 6th, 2008<\/em>
\nToday is the 9th anniversary of his passing as well as what would have been his 50th wedding anniversary. I can’t help but wonder where his wife Janet is today and what she is thinking.<\/p>\n

\"Simon
\nSimon Cramer\/Flick (Tawa) Cemetery – September 6th, 2008<\/em>
\nSimon passed because of lighting over a 157 years ago at an age of 40. How bad was the storm and what was he doing? We probably will never know.<\/p>\n

These are just two but there are so many more.\u00c2\u00a0 Cemeteries are places of great intrigue and reflection.\u00c2\u00a0 Go for a drive or check out Grave Addiction<\/a> for a virtual sampling. Beth does outstanding work documenting the history of Ohio and neighboring state’s cemeteries. You know she is good when she has captured cemeteries both where I live now and those from my childhood town some 4.5 hours away.<\/p>\n

\"Duke's
\nDuke’s Cemetery – September 6th, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you walked around a cemetery? Funerals don’t count. I’m talking about a conscious effort to linger and observe. Look at the headstones, the names, dates, relationships and epitaphs. The stories are amazing. Here are two from the Union – Flick Cemetery outside of Benton Ridge, OH. Robert E. Walter\/Union – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gelkote.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}