{"id":2770,"date":"2010-07-30T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2010-07-30T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:51:52","slug":"404-another-star-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"404. another star of david &loz;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201007D32.jpg\" alt=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At first glance, the <strong>Uribe y Lecea<\/strong> family tomb may not stand out much from its neighbors in Recoleta Cemetery. But on closer inspection&#8212;just above the false column capitals&#8212;two Stars of David hide in the shadows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201007D35.jpg\" alt=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marcelo spied the symbols during a visit earlier this year with his daughter&#8230; to our mutual surprise. Despite more than 1,000 visits to the cemetery, this discovery proves that there is always something new to be found. Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=208\">removal of the plaque<\/a> on the <strong>Benjam\u00edn Breitman<\/strong> family vault, this is the <em>only <\/em>Jewish image currently in Recoleta Cemetery. Also remarkable is the Christian symbolism outside &amp; inside:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201007D36.jpg\" alt=\"Familia de Uribe y Lecea, Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Star of David\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Was this tomb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=113\">purchased &amp; remodeled<\/a> like so many others? Did family members convert? Or did they not care about the mixed symbolism? While searching for the answers to these questions, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=5061\">PDF guidebook<\/a> has been updated to reflect the recent discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, the Uribe y Lecea family tomb may not stand out much from its neighbors in Recoleta Cemetery. But on closer inspection&#8212;just above&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=2770\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">404. another star of david &loz;<\/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-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbols","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}