{"id":3046,"date":"2025-02-03T21:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:27:57","slug":"my-grandmother-asked-me-to-clean-the-photo-on-her-headstone-exactly-a-year-after-her-death-when-i-removed-the-photograph-i-screamed-this-cant-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO CLEAN THE PHOTO ON HER HEADSTONE EXACTLY A YEAR AFTER HER DEATH\u2014WHEN I REMOVED THE PHOTOGRAPH, I SCREAMED \u201dTHIS CAN\u2019T BE!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother and I were very close. As a child, she read me fairy tales and walked me to school. As I got older, she treated me like a friend. When I introduced her to my fianc\u00e9, she invited him over for a talk, and they spoke for an hour. He never shared what they discussed, saying he\u2019d promised her.<\/p>\n<p>I think she was making sure he\u2019d be a good husband to me, as she was always fiercely protective of me. Before she passed away, my grandmother called me to her when we were alone. She whispered a request\u2014to clean the photo on her headstone exactly one year after she was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I told her, \u201dGrandma, don\u2019t talk like that; you\u2019ll be around longer.\u201d But she insisted, and so I promised her. That very night, she passed away. A year after her funeral, I went to her grave to fulfill my promise. Armed with a screwdriver, I easily unscrewed the old photo. When I removed it, I was shaken. \u201cThis can\u2019t be!\u201d I screamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother and I were very close. As a child, she read me fairy tales and walked me to school. As I got older, she treated me&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}