{"id":151,"date":"2008-03-04T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-03-04T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:18:10","slug":"in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"142. in the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Very little evidence is left from the original 1822 cemetery. As the first public burial spot in Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery wasn&#8217;t dignified enough to house the remains of elite families in its early days. They continued to prefer burial in churches. Early cemetery residents were buried haphazardly since space was available, &amp; no one seemed to care much about organization in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After the 1881 overhaul by Torcuato de Alvear, the cemetery&#8217;s layout was ordered &amp; improved. Many plots were relocated to make room for the neat rows of mausoleums visible today. As far as I know, there are only two exceptions to this rule&#8230; they don&#8217;t fit on the map.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The tomb of <strong>Gabriel Ocampo<\/strong> sits in the middle of an aisle near the entrance, almost blocking access:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gabriel Ocampo, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802G55.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Ocampo, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=28\">Irish Catholic immigrants<\/a> still have their own tombstone from early days tucked in between modern mausoleums. But not <strong>Margaret Donoghoe<\/strong>. She was never moved &amp; many people unknowingly walk over her cracked &amp; worn tombstone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Margaret Donoghoe, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802E24.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Donoghoe, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Margaret Donoghoe, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802E23.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Donoghoe, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very little evidence is left from the original 1822 cemetery. As the first public burial spot in Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery wasn&#8217;t dignified enough to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=151\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">142. in the way<\/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-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}