{"id":13823,"date":"2026-01-06T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:37:00","slug":"ii-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/ii-the-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"method &#8211; 21 &#8211; The Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Little Things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emotions are preserved and set aside not only in language but also in the little things we surround ourselves with. Something that seems to have been casually set aside can be an object that holds emotions and memories of the utmost importance. It is a container of emotions. You can find them everywhere in the house. They lie on shelves, hang from doorknobs, and are hidden in pantries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10524\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P1120591-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When reconstructing a family history, you have to take the time to look at the things inside the houses. You have to take an interest in them. These little things remain behind when we leave. They can outlast us.<\/p>\n<p>You must learn to decode the hidden transcript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Things Emotions are preserved and set aside not only in language but also in the little things we surround ourselves with. Something that seems to have been casually set aside can be an object that holds emotions and memories of the utmost importance. It is a container of emotions. You can find them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16393,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/16393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}