{"id":53,"date":"2007-12-01T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-12-01T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T20:02:30","slug":"skull-crossbones-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"049. skull &#038; crossbones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The most obvious &amp; frequently used cemetery symbol is a skull &amp; crossbones. Real skulls &amp; bones were often piled at the entrance to a cemetery to leave no doubt about what was inside. Later adopted as a danger sign, an indication of poison &amp; a pirate&#8217;s flag, it always reminds us of one thing&#8212;death.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What has always struck me as interesting is the rather comical nature of this symbol in Recoleta Cemetery. Most of the skulls have a cartoon-ish quality about them, showing a devilish grin or oddly round eye sockets:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200710J35.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711D33.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"216\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/MarCalavera02.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/MarCalavera03.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/MarCalavera04.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It makes accurate depictions all the more spooky:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711D36.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And although there is very little graffiti inside Recoleta Cemetery, some people get inspired by their surroundings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/MarCalavera01.jpg\" alt=\"Skull &amp; crossbones, Recoleta Cemetery\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Photos #3, 4, 5 &amp; 7 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=7\">Marcelo<\/a>. A later post with more photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=447\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most obvious &amp; frequently used cemetery symbol is a skull &amp; crossbones. Real skulls &amp; bones were often piled at the entrance to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">049. skull &#038; crossbones<\/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-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbols","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}