{"id":8677,"date":"2020-04-09T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2020-04-18T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:36:19","slug":"lee-memorial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/09\/lee-memorial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Memorial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lee Memorial Park<\/p><\/div>\n

I have several times alluded to the time I spend in cemeteries, usually looking for the graves of ancestors – either Jett’s or mine.\u00a0 But this season, I have taken to walking cemeteries as (1) a way of getting some regular mild exercise and (2) collecting some feel-good endorphins.\u00a0 No ancestors involved as neither of us have any ancestors buried in the area.<\/p>\n

I have, in the past, tried to satisfy some “photo requests” posted in findagrave.com<\/a>.\u00a0 These are requests for headstone photos posted by geographically-distant relatives.\u00a0 But there are relatively few of these and many are impossible to resolve as the headstone may be missing or the grave location is incorrect.\u00a0 That means a lot of walking with little satisfaction.\u00a0 I get plenty of exercise but no endorphins.\u00a0 This season I decided to go after easier prey – unphotographed graves.\u00a0 In many cemeteries there are relatively few of these as well.\u00a0 But I noticed that one large nearby cemetery – Lee Memorial Park<\/a> in Lehigh Acres, just a few miles away – had over 15% unphotographed graves.\u00a0 Since the cemetery has over 11,500 graves, that meant over 1,800 opportunities to feel good.\u00a0 Finding and photographing graves on this list became a season-long goal.<\/p>\n

I am not finished yet, but my current count of photographed graves is north of 1,200.\u00a0 I believe it will be over 1,400 when I finish.\u00a0 I think it will probably take another 6 or 7 hours in the cemetery. Should be easy to do before we head north.\u00a0 Because, with everything closed in the pandemic, I have plenty of spare time.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t have predicted this, of course, when I embarked on this task, but it turns out to be a really<\/em> good way to get exercise during a pandemic.\u00a0 It is very easy to adhere to “social distancing” rules when I am surrounded by dead people.\u00a0 There are, occasionally, other visitors to the cemetery, but it is a huge cemetery and it is very easy to avoid other living humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have several times alluded to the time I spend in cemeteries, usually looking for the graves of ancestors – either Jett’s or mine.\u00a0 But this season, I have taken to walking cemeteries as (1) a way of getting some regular mild exercise and (2) collecting some feel-good endorphins.\u00a0 No ancestors involved as neither of … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,54,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-genealogy","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9691,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/9691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}