{"id":2553,"date":"2021-01-31T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:06:45","slug":"catharine-by-john-mcgrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/01\/31\/catharine-by-john-mcgrath\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Catharine&#8221; by John McGrath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>In Memoriam, Catharine McGrath Maroney, 1832-1912, St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Cemetery, Lillis, Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She lay forgotten, just another stone<br>within a field of stones, with Mother etched<br>above her name. And yet had blessings grown,<br>like kindling fired, in all the souls she touched.<br>Her children, husband, lineage, so dear<br>to her in life, now lie beside. Before<br>the silent stones, a passerby might hear<br>their lesson, Family, then know it more.<br>A eulogy two daughters penned survives.<br>In Ireland born on Christmas Day, she served<br>a caring God throughout her years. To lives<br>in need, she lavished kindness unreserved.<br>No more her brightness fills the length of day,<br>but light has claimed the darkness where she lay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>John McGrath grew up on a small farm in Kansas, the second-oldest of 12 children. He worked in Information Technology in Boston before retiring to Florida in 2013 with his wife of 38 years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam, Catharine McGrath Maroney, 1832-1912, St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Cemetery, Lillis, Kansas She lay forgotten, just another stonewithin a field of stones, with Mother etchedabove her name. And yet had blessings grown,like kindling fired, in all the souls she touched.Her children, husband, lineage, so dearto her in life, now lie beside. Beforethe silent stones, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2021\/01\/31\/catharine-by-john-mcgrath\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-Fb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}