{"id":351,"date":"2010-01-31T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-01-31T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:50:21","slug":"little-bit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/little-bit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bit 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime ago I put up a post about Why We Do It.\u00a0 I am fascinated by the variety of people who are interested in family history and their reasons for doing research.\u00a0 So, every time I come across something on the subject or have a new thought on it I will post it.\u00a0 This one is from Ian Frazier&#8217;s book <em>Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I wanted my parents&#8217;\u00a0 lives to have meant something.\u00a0 I hunted all over for meaning of any kind&#8211;not, I think, simply out of grief or anger at their deaths, but also because the stuff they saved implied that there must have been a reason for saving it.\u00a0 The smell of an old hymnal, the weave of a black mesh hat veil, the tone of a thank you note, each struck me with the silent force of a clue.\u00a0 Something was going on here.\u00a0 I believed bigger meaning hid behind little ones, that maybe I could follow them to a source back tens or hundreds of years ago.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t care if the meanings were far-flung or vague or even tivial.\u00a0 I wanted to pursue them\u00a0 I hoped maybe I could find a meaning that would defeat death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime ago I put up a post about Why We Do It.\u00a0 I am fascinated by the variety of people who are interested in family history and their reasons for doing research.\u00a0 So, every time I come across something on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/little-bit-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Bit 2<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitsnpieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}