{"id":30444,"date":"2022-10-25T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30444"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:58:01","slug":"spotted-in-the-obits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/25\/spotted-in-the-obits\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted in the Obits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kinda sorta scan the obits in my hometown newspapers.  Not because I will know anyone&#8211;I mean, my &#8220;hometowns&#8221; where I take the newspapers are all adopted home towns, and I didn&#8217;t go to high school there.  But rather because I want to make sure that the people who have passed away are older than I am.  And they are, for the most part, but that&#8217;s probably just as much because only old people and their families put obits in the paper any more.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, in the <em>Stone County Republican and Crane Chronicle<\/em> last week, I did spot a familiar name.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ayresobituary.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As you might remember, gentle reader, I read his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/book-report-traces-of-silver-by-artie-ayres-1982\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Traces of Silver<\/a><\/em> about the mythical Yocum Silver Dollar not long after I moved to the area.  Well, two years after I moved to the area, but in the perspective of the time that has passed, not long at all.<\/p>\n<p>The book made an impression on me&#8211;I mean, I know the origin of Silver Dollar City&#8217;s name, and I know enough of the story that I can tell of it.  And at the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/23\/and-now-i-am-a-coin-collector\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">coin show this weekend<\/a>, I thought about asking at the booths whether they had any Yocum dollars today, but I did not.<\/p>\n<p>So rest in peace, Mr. Ayres.  While the world mourns another actor, I&#8217;ll give thanks for your life and its slight impact on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kinda sorta scan the obits in my hometown newspapers. Not because I will know anyone&#8211;I mean, my &#8220;hometowns&#8221; where I take the newspapers are all adopted home towns, and I didn&#8217;t go to high school there. But rather because I want to make sure that the people who have passed away are older than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30445,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions\/30445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}