{"id":70,"date":"2007-12-13T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2007-12-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:22:20","slug":"ouroboros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"061. ouroboros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Taken from a Greek phrase meaning &#8220;tail devourer,&#8221; this ancient symbol of a serpent eating its tail is perfect for a cemetery. Representing an eternal cycle of renewal, death is not seen as an end&#8230; it&#8217;s another beginning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711L61.jpg\" alt=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The serpent is often accompanied by a sphere&#8212;another symbol of eternity&#8212;or some other circular form. The ouroboros on front gate is difficult to make out from a distance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711G03.jpg\" alt=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"400\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Another beautiful example is on the Demarchi y Quiroga family vault. For an explanation of the moth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=45\">see this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200710J05.jpg\" alt=\"Ouroboros, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from a Greek phrase meaning &#8220;tail devourer,&#8221; this ancient symbol of a serpent eating its tail is perfect for a cemetery. Representing an eternal&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=70\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">061. ouroboros<\/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-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbols","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}