{"id":5856,"date":"2016-03-11T12:41:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2017-01-07T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:06:11","slug":"in-memoriam-keith-black-1942-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/in-memoriam-keith-black-1942-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Keith Black (1942-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details on my father&#8217;s memorial service will be posted here in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funeralalternatives.org\/portfolio-item\/black-keith-vernon\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can also sign Keith&#8217;s guestbook and see his obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing a series of posts on the chapters of my\u00a0father&#8217;s life. Links to these are below. One thing I&#8217;m realizing as I write these is that I know little or nothing about large chunks of my father&#8217;s life. If you&#8217;d like to share any memories or stories to help fill holes in my father&#8217;s story, whether privately or for inclusion in a biographical post, please do so by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=5968&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Black&#8217;s early childhood (1942-1949)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Keith Black&#8217;s later childhood (1950\u20131954)<\/li>\n<li>His teen years (1955\u20131960)<\/li>\n<li>Graduation and the Navy (1960\u20131964)<\/li>\n<li>Marriage and children\u00a0(1965\u20131969)<\/li>\n<li>The 1970s: Trying to fit in<\/li>\n<li>The early 1980s: Divorce and discovery<\/li>\n<li>The later 1980s: A green thumb<\/li>\n<li>The 1990s:\u00a0Settling in Washington<\/li>\n<li>The 2000s: Cars and motorcycles<\/li>\n<li>The 2010s: A photographer once again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details on my father&#8217;s memorial service will be posted here in the coming weeks. You can also sign Keith&#8217;s guestbook and see his obituary here. I&#8217;m writing a series of posts on the chapters of my\u00a0father&#8217;s life. Links to these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/in-memoriam-keith-black-1942-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[51,55,70,90,78,75,119,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-dorothy-mcmurry-black","category-frank-ross-mcmurry","category-keith-v-black","category-lucinda-t-bailey-mcmurry","category-merchant-grocer","category-military","category-vernon-c-black"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}