{"id":113,"date":"2008-01-26T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-01-26T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:25:15","slug":"resale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"104. resale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">With no further room for expansion, an interesting phenomenon developed in Recoleta Cemetery&#8212;the resale of tombs. If a family decides to use another cemetery, they can transfer caskets &amp; personal effects to the new location &amp; sell their mausoleum to someone else. Given high construction costs, new owners typically opt for renovation of the existing tomb &amp; tack on their name instead of building an entirely new structure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Family vaults which have been resold can be easily identified. Look for name plates which appear pasted over the original owners:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200707E38.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sometimes new tenants don&#8217;t bother erasing the previous owners&#8217; name:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801C13.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Other times a new nameplate obviously covers the previous family name:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G17.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711A55.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Or a patchwork job erases the past:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G22.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When a family name doesn&#8217;t match either the style or font of the original owner, it&#8217;s a dead giveaway:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200801G31.jpg\" alt=\"Resold tomb, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no further room for expansion, an interesting phenomenon developed in Recoleta Cemetery&#8212;the resale of tombs. If a family decides to use another cemetery, they&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=113\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">104. resale<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}