{"id":7773,"date":"2018-10-18T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2018-10-18T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:14:57","slug":"time-stands-still-for-no-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"Time Stands Still for No Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7774\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7774\" class=\"wp-image-7774 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/norwood_andrew_trask_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/norwood_andrew_trask_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/norwood_andrew_trask_1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew and Lucinda Trask tombstone Norwood Cemetery, Mercer County, Illinois. Taken 2005 Michael John Neill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took this cemetery photograph several years ago at the Norwood Cemetery in Mercer County, Illinois not too far from my home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad that I did. It&#8217;s one of those stones that weathers somewhat easily. \u00a0Facing west on the Illinois prairie, the winter weather probably doesn&#8217;t help the inscription to stand the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>But as this stone makes clear, time does not stand still.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any stones like this for your ancestors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this cemetery photograph several years ago at the Norwood Cemetery in Mercer County, Illinois not too far from my home. I&#8217;m really glad that I did. It&#8217;s one of those stones that weathers somewhat easily. \u00a0Facing west on the Illinois prairie, the winter weather probably doesn&#8217;t help the inscription to stand the test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}