{"id":2398,"date":"2011-07-12T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:15:30","slug":"mortuary-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"Post-mortem Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I went for a stroll through Mt. Olivet Cemetery on Chicago&#8217;s south side. The cemetery itself, established in 1885, isn&#8217;t very interesting by Chicago standards &#8211; though it does contain the original gravesite of Al Capone (who was moved to Mt. Carmel several years after his death) and the infamous O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s (though the cow isn&#8217;t buried here, sadly). For the most part though, being a Catholic cemetery, it&#8217;s pretty boring: the statuary is mostly generic Jesus &amp; Marys and the inscriptions are yawn-inducing Bible quotes. However, there were some great ceramics on the stones. Typically, the majority of them appear to have been stolen, but I did find some gems still left (mostly) intact, including some post-mortems (my favorites, of course). I thought I&#8217;d share a few over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, here is Maria Rossi who died in 1920 in all her coffin-bound glory:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mariarossi1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2399 alignnone\" title=\"Maria Rossi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mariarossi1920-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Rossi\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mariarossi1920-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mariarossi1920.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I went for a stroll through Mt. Olivet Cemetery on Chicago&#8217;s south side. The cemetery itself, established in 1885, isn&#8217;t very interesting by Chicago standards &#8211; though it does contain the original gravesite of Al Capone (who was moved to Mt. Carmel several years after his death) and the infamous O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s (though the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghastly","category-sightseer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}