{"id":31001,"date":"2011-07-03T05:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=31001"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:53:13","slug":"whispers-from-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=31001","title":{"rendered":"Whispers from the Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next to the Qcentre (to the south) is one of the St. Charles Township Cemeteries &#8212; the North Cemetery. It is sandwiched between the Norris Woods Nature Preserve and an older graveyard: the Union Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>As we stumbled upon this peaceful little area it was exactly what we needed. The day was uber hot and we were in bad need of a break. The cemetery has large shading trees and plenty of quiet.  <\/p>\n<p>There was the element of surprise from the other wanderers when we discovered a grouping of civil war (union) graves; none of us realized the sheer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois_in_the_American_Civil_War\">number of Union soldiers that came from Illinois<\/a>. The most famous of all is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/5894383\/john-franklin-farnsworth\">John Franklin Farnsworth<\/a>, who was a Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General and US politician.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31001 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=70428'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/med-P1050482-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/med-P1050482-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/med-P1050482-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=70429'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504841-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504841-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504841-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=70430'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504861-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504861-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504861-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=70431'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504901-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504901-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sm-P10504901-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nNext to the Qcentre (to the south) is one of the St.&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=31001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Whispers from the Trees&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,410,34],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-31001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois","category-st-charles","category-us","tag-cemetery","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31001"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94791,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31001\/revisions\/94791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}