{"id":37,"date":"2022-03-16T01:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2024-12-22T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:30:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/","title":{"rendered":"TROUTMAN AND MESSINA FAMILIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/whispytree-1.png\" alt=\"A wispy tree.\" class=\"wp-image-28\" style=\"width:335px;height:434px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Welcome!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I created this site to honor the families of my father, <a href=\"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/?page_id=15269\" title=\"\">James Paul\/Moran Troutman<\/a> (Troutman\/Moran\/etc.), my mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com?page_id=15722\" title=\"\">Maria Troutman<\/a> (Messina\/Padovani), and everyone related to them. I want it to be an electronic &#8220;ancestral home,&#8221; a way to bring us closer together despite distances that aren&#8217;t always measured in miles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My brothers and I <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #27ae60;\">grew up in Maine<\/span><\/a>, far from most of our relatives. Our parents weren&#8217;t native Mainers. No aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews, or grandparents lived close by, and we sometimes felt isolated &#8212; like &#8220;black sheep&#8221; &#8212; and out of place; many of our neighbors had relatives close by, but sometimes, our neighbors were as close as relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Honoring and Remembering Those Who Have Gone Before Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By the time I was 14, my father, James, had died and my grandparents had passed away. The memories of everyone who is gone live on in our hearts, and I&#8217;m pleased to help keep their legacies alive here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We didn&#8217;t begin to get to know our extended family until the mid-1990s and late 2000s. It has been great to know you, and I hope we can keep staying in touch for years to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Some of us find family connections more important than others, which is fine, but I hope you&#8217;ll explore this site and learn more about the history we share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Thank you so much for visiting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Love and best wishes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Michelle Troutman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I created this site to honor the families of my father, James Paul\/Moran Troutman (Troutman\/Moran\/etc.), my mother, Maria Troutman (Messina\/Padovani), and everyone related to them. I want it to be an electronic &#8220;ancestral home,&#8221; a way to bring us closer together despite distances that aren&#8217;t always measured in miles. My brothers and I grew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TROUTMAN AND MESSINA FAMILIES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutmanmessina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}