{"id":229,"date":"2006-04-28T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-07-17T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:14:32","slug":"the-most-beautiful-skull-in-kings-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/04\/28\/the-most-beautiful-skull-in-kings-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"The most beautiful skull in King&#8217;s Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry&#8230; You aren&#8217;t going to see it. Ever since I&#8217;ve been amassing a portfolio for my gallery show, I&#8217;ve been feeling awfully proprietary of my cemetery photos. I really doubt people would plagiarize them, but you never can be sure&#8230;which is why I keep the best ones on my hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I took advantage of an incredibly sunny day yesterday to shoot some photos in King&#8217;s Chapel around noon. Though younger than the Granary across the way, King&#8217;s Chapel seems much less tended. Perhaps that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s on a downhill slope that makes the lowest part of the cemetery just a big leach field. Perhaps it&#8217;s because more of the stones were made of sandstone, which erodes easily. I think fewer people go to King&#8217;s Chapel, even though it, like the Granary, is on the heavily trafficked Freedom Trail, so people spend less time keeping it up.<\/p>\n<p>They do have the best stone, though, right by the entrance. It&#8217;s an intricate carving in which a skeleton holds a spear and a candle snuffer, ready to extinguish the candle of life, which is sitting upon a globe. Behind the skeleton stands Father Time, an old bearded man, with his scythe. Unfortunately, you&#8217;re not going to see that either, at least not until I figure out how to manipulate the image so you can see all the detail in the carving. I promise I&#8217;ll show it to you, though. It&#8217;s impressive!<\/p>\n<p>What you are going to see is a macro of a much longer epitaph on a woman&#8217;s grave, entitled Somebody Loved Her. I don&#8217;t think I need to explain the title. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/cem\/kingschapelIMG_0129someonelovedher1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry&#8230; You aren&#8217;t going to see it. Ever since I&#8217;ve been amassing a portfolio for my gallery show, I&#8217;ve been feeling awfully proprietary of my cemetery photos. I really doubt people would plagiarize them, but you never can be sure&#8230;which is why I keep the best ones on my hard drive. Anyway, I took advantage&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/04\/28\/the-most-beautiful-skull-in-kings-chapel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The most beautiful skull in King&#8217;s Chapel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[658],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5509,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}