{"id":3404,"date":"2019-05-13T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2019-05-13T06:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:55:22","slug":"more-vermonters-choosing-none-of-your-business-on-their-headstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/more-vermonters-choosing-none-of-your-business-on-their-headstones\/","title":{"rendered":"More Vermonters Choosing &#8220;None of Your Business&#8221; On Their Headstones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>STOWE &#8211; A famous tombstone in Stowe reads: <strong><em>I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours.<\/em><\/strong> But now it may be sparking a trend. Anonymous grave markers are becoming more popular across the state as many Vermonters struggle to achieve anonymmortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re getting that sort of request from a lot of folks these days,&#8221; said professional headstone engraver Graham Rebar. &#8220;People want to be remembered, but not by just anybody. So they are choosing more anonymous inscriptions. The people who need to know will know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move has frustrated some historians, who worry that this sort of vague stone carving could lead to potential loss of future knowledge. &#8220;Good,&#8221; said one Vermonter who would not tell us their name, even for fifty dollars. &#8220;I ain&#8217;t in the future, so tell me how that&#8217;s my problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to &#8220;None of Your Business,&#8221; some popular options include &#8220;What&#8217;s It To Ya?&#8221; and &#8220;If I&#8217;da Wantedja To Know, I&#8217;da Toldja.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>STOWE &#8211; A famous tombstone in Stowe reads: I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours. But now it may be sparking a trend. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/more-vermonters-choosing-none-of-your-business-on-their-headstones\/\" title=\"More Vermonters Choosing &#8220;None of Your Business&#8221; On Their Headstones\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[40],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vermont-life","tag-stowe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TWFI-2019_05_13.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-SU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}