{"id":223,"date":"2008-06-16T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-06-16T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T16:49:53","slug":"ongoing-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"209. ongoing restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=191\">reported by <em>La Naci\u00f3n<\/em> newspaper<\/a> in March, further restoration works are now in full swing. Even though the number of projects scheduled for 2008 is fewer than those completed last year, it&#8217;s a relief to see planned restorations underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exterior for the crypt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=193\">Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a<\/a> has been cleaned &amp; a missing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=217\">truncated column<\/a> has been returned to its base. Interestingly enough, the inscription on the column is in French. For the moment, I can only make out a portion of the text describing inconsolable parents &amp; their best son. I&#8217;ll have to wait until the scaffolding is removed &amp; better light to add the full text to the original post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805C01.jpg\" alt=\"Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805C03.jpg\" alt=\"Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez Pe\u00f1a, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another vault currently getting a facelift is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=14\">Rufina Cambac\u00e9r\u00e8s<\/a>. One afternoon a couple weeks ago I noticed someone removing rust from the wrought-iron doors &amp; decorative gate at the corner. Now scaffolding covers the entire structure. The restoration guy appears to be working from the top down since I could only see his feet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Rufina Cambac\u00e9r\u00e8s, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200806B17.jpg\" alt=\"Rufina Cambac\u00e9r\u00e8s, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While I don&#8217;t doubt that the finished restoration will look fantastic, the weathered &amp; aged statue of Rufina has a certain charm to it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Rufina Cambac\u00e9r\u00e8s, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612F14.jpg\" alt=\"Rufina Cambac\u00e9r\u00e8s, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So much restoration has been done over the past few years that an info panel now sits at the entrance to show visitors before &amp; after photos of major works:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Restoration info panel, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200805A23.jpg\" alt=\"Restoration info panel, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by La Naci\u00f3n newspaper in March, further restoration works are now in full swing. Even though the number of projects scheduled for 2008&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=223\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">209. ongoing restoration<\/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-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}