{"id":1026,"date":"2009-12-09T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2021-08-17T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:30:18","slug":"361-poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"361. poppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Poppy, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200902C13.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who can forget the scene in &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; where Dorothy &amp; the Cowardly Lion are in danger of falling asleep forever in the poppy fields?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The poppy has been associated with eternal sleep since Greek times when they were used as offerings for the deceased. Perhaps the effects of opium &#8212;intense relaxation &amp; freedom from anxiety&#8212; also make the poppy an appropriate symbol for a cemetery. Although not common in Recoleta, the image can occasionally be found in wrought-iron doors &amp; plaques:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Poppy, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200912B07.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who can forget the scene in &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; where Dorothy &amp; the Cowardly Lion are in danger of falling asleep forever in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1026\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">361. poppy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbols","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}