{"id":2383,"date":"2010-04-07T06:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2013-06-24T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:58:38","slug":"grave-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"Grave matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/unknown_grave_54561.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>With the snow receding, interesting markers like this are beginning to surface. I spotted this one northwest of Mandan at the diminutive Yucca Cemetery along Highway 25. There are a couple of these staring skyward in silent anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/grave_eye_47262.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This is part of a rather creepy looking Masonic-themed marker at the abandoned Greenwood Cemetery near my old stompin&#8217; grounds south of Mandan. When I was a kid there were some even weirder markers that seem to have disappeared over time. Then there was the discovery of over forty unmarked graves in that area a couple of years ago, a fact which was kept quiet by local media to discourage grave robbers until things could be moved.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know there are a couple of very old grave markers, probably among the area&#8217;s oldest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/legacy\/index.php?m=02&amp;y=08&amp;d=14&amp;entry=entry080214-225546\" target=\"_blank\">right along Sibley Drive in south Bismarck<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the snow receding, interesting markers like this are beginning to surface. I spotted this one northwest of Mandan at the diminutive Yucca Cemetery along Highway 25. There are a couple of these staring skyward in silent anonymity. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}