{"id":45,"date":"2007-11-17T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-11-17T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T00:55:28","slug":"like-a-moth-to-a-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"036. like a moth to a flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moths are perfect symbols for cemeteries\u2026 Just think about it. As a caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon, it appears to be dead. But after metamorphosis takes place, it is reborn as a winged creature that is attracted to light. The life cycle of a moth is therefore a wonderful allegory for a loved one who passes away, is transformed &amp; later reborn&#8230; heading to the light:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Moth, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200710J04.jpg\" alt=\"Moth, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"462\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In spite of the comforting imagery involved, there are few moths in Recoleta Cemetery. The most obvious is in the center of the entrance gate. Some sources say that it is a bee, not a moth. Even I used to believe that until I could resolve the obvious differences in body structure. Coupled with other moth images I\u2019ve found inside (one example above), there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that it is *not* a bee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Moth, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200710J47.jpg\" alt=\"Moth, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moths are perfect symbols for cemeteries\u2026 Just think about it. As a caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon, it appears to be dead. But after&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=45\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">036. like a moth to a flame<\/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-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbols","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}