{"id":1142,"date":"2008-05-16T21:49:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2008-05-16T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T01:49:28","slug":"graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we received notice that Devin was buried on May 15 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=cr&#038;CRid=91351\">Oak Grove Cemetary<\/a> in Section 11A, Grave #88.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction when Den called me about the notice was, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s good.&#8221; It&#8217;s good to know the date, the grave marker, the graveyard. More things for his scrapbook, more pieces of his short life that I get to keep. I don&#8217;t know, I felt like I was supposed to feel more about that plot of earth. But then every once in a while I get an image of his poor little body bured under the earth an I get a familiar feeling of panic. The idea of burial, in general has always made me feel a little panicky. But at the same time I know we made the right decision for this. I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m just not a fan of graves, period. I&#8217;m much much fonder of his tree growing in our front yard.<\/p>\n<p>We are allowed to place a grass level baby marker at the gravesite, and we are allowed to plant flowers or put out potted plants or urns from March 15 to July 1. I&#8217;m still really unsure about what I want to do, if anything. The idea of planting some flowers is nice.<\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking about what to do around his tree, though. I think I want to plant some flowers around its base, to provide color since the tree is done blooming. Yes indeed, I think I want to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we received notice that Devin was buried on May 15 in Oak Grove Cemetary in Section 11A, Grave #88. My first reaction when Den called me about the notice was, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s good.&#8221; It&#8217;s good to know the date, the grave marker, the graveyard. More things for his scrapbook, more pieces of his short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,69],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}