{"id":2496,"date":"2014-12-31T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2014-12-31T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:25:30","slug":"how-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-prompt-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/how-do-you-want-to-be-remembered-prompt-124\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you want to be remembered? Prompt #124"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humorous or serious – what would you write for your epitaph?<\/p>\n

Compose several brief epitaphs for yourself \u2014\u00a0the headlines you’d like to see on your headstone. Think of them as messages to future generations that convey how you want to be remembered. And then. . . write a story that explains why the epitaph is appropriate.<\/p>\n

You could also write this for your fictional character.<\/p>\n

Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n

He Was Happiest When He Was Young. Strongest When He Was Old.<\/em><\/p>\n

Family First, Last, and Always<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d Rather Be Smelling the Roses (Than Lying Underneath Them)<\/em><\/p>\n

Wish I Had It All to Do Over Again (So I Could Do It All the Same but Better)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Akeret.Family<\/a>Prompt:<\/strong> Write your obituary, or your Life’s Tributes.\u00a0 Share your writing here, on The Write Spot Blog.<\/p>\n

From Family Tales, Family Wisdom<\/em> \u2014\u00a0 How to gather the stories of a lifetime and share them with your family, <\/em>by Dr. Robert U. Akeret with Daniel Klein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humorous or serious – what would you write for your epitaph? Compose several brief epitaphs for yourself \u2014\u00a0the headlines you’d like to see on your headstone. Think of them as messages to future generations that convey how you want to be remembered. And then. . . write a story that explains why the epitaph is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[589,588,611,610,105,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-daniel-klein","tag-dr-robert-u-akeret","tag-family-wisdom-how-to-gather-the-stories-of-a-lifetime-and-share-them-with-your-family","tag-from-family-tales","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-Eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}