{"id":38,"date":"2009-03-25T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-03-25T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:59:35","slug":"the-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2009\/03\/25\/the-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent funeral, the pastor read a touching poem.  I was so impressed with it that I found the author&#8217;s website and learned it was written over ten years ago.  It has since gained some popularity and I thought it was appropriate for genealogists, who are so concerned with the birth and death dates of our ancestors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI read of a man who stood to speak<br \/>\nat the funeral of a friend.<br \/>\nHe referred to the dates on her tombstone<br \/>\nfrom the beginning&#8230;to the end.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that first came the date of her birth<br \/>\nand spoke of the following date with tears,<br \/>\nbut he said what mattered most of all<br \/>\nwas the dash between those years.<\/p>\n<p>For that dash represents all the time<br \/>\nthat she spent alive on earth&#8230;<br \/>\nand now only those who loved her<br \/>\nknow what that little line is worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;excerpt from The Dash, a poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindaslyrics.com\/\">Linda Ellis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent funeral, the pastor read a touching poem. I was so impressed with it that I found the author&#8217;s website and learned it was written over ten years ago. It has since gained some popularity and I thought it was appropriate for genealogists, who are so concerned with the birth and death dates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2009\/03\/25\/the-dash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}