{"id":5396,"date":"2017-06-27T04:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/27\/names-on-grave-stones\/"},"modified":"2017-06-27T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T04:46:21","slug":"names-on-grave-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/27\/names-on-grave-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Names on Grave Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The names on grave stones are proper names for a time, while the memories of survivors provide reference-fixing context. But with the passing of the survivors the names revert to commonality. After a while the dead may as well lie in a common grave.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What lies below the stone is not Patrick J. McNally, but a Patrick J. McNally. &#0160;And not even this; rather, the bodily remains of a Patrick J. McNally. &#0160;The person has fled or no longer exists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The names on grave stones are proper names for a time, while the memories of survivors provide reference-fixing context. But with the passing of the survivors the names revert to commonality. After a while the dead may as well lie in a common grave.&#0160; What lies below the stone is not Patrick J. McNally, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/27\/names-on-grave-stones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Names on Grave Stones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-language-philosophy-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}