{"id":4424,"date":"2018-08-26T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:50:55","slug":"john-joseph-connolly-memorial-tahoma-national-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"John Joseph Connolly Memorial &#8211; Tahoma National Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad died while married to his second wife, Barbara.  She had him cremated, with his ashes spread in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>I want him to be remembered for all eternity so I obtained all of the paperwork to show he qualified for a memorial marker at Tahoma National Cemetery near our home.<\/p>\n<p>This is his marker.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful and blessed to have lived long enough to do this.  While Dad and I always had our challenges, he was an honorable man dedicated to his children.  I&#8217;ve never met anyone like him, and I doubt I ever will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?resize=940%2C710&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"710\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?resize=1024%2C773&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?resize=768%2C580&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?resize=397%2C300&amp;ssl=1 397w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/John-Joseph-Connolly-Memorial-Marker-Tahoma-Natl-Cemetery.jpg?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad died while married to his second wife, Barbara. She had him cremated, with his ashes spread in the ocean. I want him to be remembered for all eternity so I obtained all of the paperwork to show he <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=4424\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}