{"id":1094,"date":"2015-06-29T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:28:45","slug":"memento-mori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/memento-mori\/","title":{"rendered":"Memento Mori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/au\" target=\"_blank\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> published an article by Phillip George entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/memento-mori-remember-that-you-have-to-die-42823\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Memento Mori<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0The article outlines the practice of taking the portrait of a person or animal who has recently died, and how the availability of photography (at relatively low cost) made it possible for more families to have a visual record of their loves ones who had passed away. Although there are only a few photographs reproduced in the article, they all have a distinct poignancy about them. They&#8217;re a reminder to each of us about our own mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago,\u00a0The Conversation published an article by Phillip George entitled Memento Mori.\u00a0The article outlines the practice of taking the portrait of a person or animal who has recently died, and how the availability of photography (at relatively low cost) made it possible for more families to have a visual record of their loves ones&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/06\/29\/memento-mori\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"Memento Mori\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">Memento Mori<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,248,25,247],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-death","tag-phillip-george","tag-portraits","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}