{"id":9048,"date":"2012-05-13T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2012-05-13T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:34:00","slug":"curiosities-pictures-of-the-living-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/05\/curiosities-pictures-of-the-living-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities: Pictures of the Living Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2012\/05\/pictur1.jpg\" alt=\"Pictur1\" title=\"pictur1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slightlywarped.com\/crapfactory\/curiosities\/2009\/picturesofthelivingdead.htm\" >Curiosities: Pictures of the Living Dead<\/a>: &#8220;During Victorian times, when the camera was still seen as a novel oddity, the practice of taking pictures of the recently deceased as a memorial became commonplace.  As time progressed and more people wanted to remember family members who had prematurely departed, it became commonplace to position dead bodies in life-like poses to simulate how these individuals were before they shuffled off their mortal coils.<\/p>\n<p>Pay close attention to these photos.  The bodies are positioned with heavy wire and stands and, in some cases, pupils have been painted on closed eyelids. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"\"><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosities: Pictures of the Living Dead: &#8220;During Victorian times, when the camera was still seen as a novel oddity, the practice of taking pictures of the recently deceased as a memorial became commonplace. As time progressed and more people wanted to remember family members who had prematurely departed, it became commonplace to position dead bodies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2012\/05\/curiosities-pictures-of-the-living-dead\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curiosities: Pictures of the Living Dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-2lW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}