{"id":663,"date":"2007-11-01T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T01:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-11-01T01:54:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T01:54:50","slug":"p-p-geddes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"P.P.Geddes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Percy Patrick Geddes, my grandfather, died five years ago, almost precisely as I write this. I think of him often.  I carry his surname as my middle name, and claim membership in Clan Gordon rather than Clan Davidson to honour his lineage on my mother&#8217;s side. I see his influence in the best parts of who I am today.<br \/>\nFive years ago, I was newly on the road, starting my travels. I <a href=http:\/\/lists.topica.com\/lists\/morgueatlarge\/read\/message.html?mid=905687035&#038;sort=d&#038;start=0>wrote about this then<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the first minutes of All Saints Day my grandfather, Percy Patrick Geddes,<br \/>\npassed away.<br \/>\nHe\u00b4s one of the reasons I\u00b4m travelling. Growing up, it seemed to me that he\u00b4d been everywhere there was to go. He and my grandmother Felice drove all over New Zealand, all over Europe, to so many places. I was always finding out about more places he had seen and I\u00b4m sure there are plenty more that I still don\u00b4t know about. He loved to travel.<br \/>\nHe was a great grandfather and a great friend and a great role model. I guess I idolised him without even realising it. He did living the way it was meant to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percy Patrick Geddes, my grandfather, died five years ago, almost precisely as I write this. I think of him often. I carry his surname as my middle name, and claim membership in Clan Gordon rather than Clan Davidson to honour his lineage on my mother&#8217;s side. I see his influence in the best parts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P.P.Geddes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-aH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}