{"id":239,"date":"2012-04-26T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-04-26T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:27:54","slug":"hello-sam-weve-been-looking-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/26\/hello-sam-weve-been-looking-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Sam &#8212; We&#8217;ve Been Looking for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237\" title=\"Sam Blonger headstone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/44058600_125765843091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Blonger&#39;s headstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;d been looking for Sam for nine years &#8212; he was the only Blonger whose final resting place had not been determined.\u00a0 But apparently we weren&#8217;t looking nearly hard enough.\u00a0 Turns out this photo has been on the Find-a-Grave web site for the last three years, thanks to researcher Scotti McCarthy. For some reason (that I needn&#8217;t bother to figure out at this point), I thought Sam was buried in Fairmount Cemetery in an unmarked grave. Instead, he&#8217;s in historic Riverside Cemetery, north of downtown. I will visit him this summer.\u00a0 In addition to answering the lingering mystery of Sam&#8217;s location, it also prompted me to set up a <a title=\"virtual cemetery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=vcsr&amp;GSvcid=286063\">&#8220;virtual cemetery&#8221; of Blongers<\/a> on the Find-a-Grave web site. Neat idea, and one that I hope to build out some more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Now if we could just find a picture, or even a drawing, of this guy.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d been looking for Sam for nine years &#8212; he was the only Blonger whose final resting place had not been determined.\u00a0 But apparently we weren&#8217;t looking nearly hard enough.\u00a0 Turns out this photo has been on the Find-a-Grave web site for the last three years, thanks to researcher Scotti McCarthy. For some reason (that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}