{"id":85774,"date":"2023-10-13T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85774"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:48:33","slug":"where-credit-is-due-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85774","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due: Epilogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those of you who’ve been watching this blog for years may have figured it out – when I have a loooong anthology series, I’m often doing something other than writing every morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two anthology series at the same time – “Soundtrack” and “Where Credit Is Due?” Unprecedented, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was. I actually took an honest-to-God vacation. I spent two weeks in Norway (by the time you read this, I’ll be home again). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent that time visiting relatives – in this case, the grand, great-grand and great-great grandchildren of Bernt Oleson Gr\u00e6sli<\/a>, who I talked about last week. In getting ready for the trip, I started thinking about all the things that go into a generation of people – decades, generations, even centuries of work, wins, defeats, triumphs, disasters and innumerable lessons and traits and legends passed down to those who follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a distant relative tell me I resembled my great-great-uncle (who died in 1965 at 93 years old)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My great-grandfather’s little brother (front row, 3rd from left, his five sons, and their families, seventy years ago<\/em>. The farmhouse behind them was built in 1850, has been the setting for generations of family photos, and still stands today. I spent a bunch of time this past week with some of the younger kids in this photo, and their children. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got some questions answered (how did my great-grandfather get the idea to come to America), answered some questions (nobody knew what happened to his little sisters – but I did!), and had a great time thinking about what is family<\/em>, and what are the motivations and influences and good times and bad times that make people <\/em>who they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there’s more to come. Maybe on the blog, maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s been a couple of fun weeks, both in real life and blog-time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of you who’ve been watching this blog for years may have figured it out – when I have a loooong anthology series, I’m often doing something other than writing every morning. Two anthology series at the same time – “Soundtrack” and “Where Credit Is Due?” Unprecedented, right? It was. I actually took an honest-to-God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wandering-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85774\/revisions\/86200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}