{"id":65366,"date":"2017-10-30T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=65366"},"modified":"2017-10-30T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:09:48","slug":"taphophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65366","title":{"rendered":"tombstone tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Taphophilia\u00a0<\/strong><em>Origin: Ancient Greek\u00a0<em>\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2<\/em>\u00a0(taphos, \u201cfuneral rites\u201d, \u201cburial\u201d, \u201cfuneral\u201d, \u201cwake\u201d; \u201ctomb\u201d, \u201cgrave\u201d) +\u00a0English\u00a0<em>-philia<\/em>\u00a0(from the Ancient Greek\u00a0<em>\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1<\/em>\u00a0(philia),\u00a0<em>philia<\/em>, \u201clove\u201d, \u201cfondness\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If wandering through cemeteries, imagining the lives of those who lay beneath the poems and quotes, and taking pictures of the tombstones is something that someone you know enjoys, s\/he just might have a mild case of taphophilia. Also called a \u201ctombstone tourist,\u201d or a \u201ccemeterian,\u201d or even a \u201ccemetery hunter,\u201d the people afflicted with this don\u2019t seem to suffer from it. Quite the contrary, they find walking through a cemetery to be the most peaceful of hobbies. What&#8217;s not to love? Trees, peace, quiet, maybe even a rest beneath a tree. Or perhaps the contemplation of life itself while leaning up against a &#8230; beautifully carved rock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65369\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65369\" class=\"wp-image-65369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Glasnevin_Cemetery.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glasnevin Cemetery by William Murphy via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taphophilia\u00a0Origin: Ancient Greek\u00a0\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0(taphos, \u201cfuneral rites\u201d, \u201cburial\u201d, \u201cfuneral\u201d, \u201cwake\u201d; \u201ctomb\u201d, \u201cgrave\u201d) +\u00a0English\u00a0-philia\u00a0(from the Ancient Greek\u00a0\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1\u00a0(philia),\u00a0philia, \u201clove\u201d, \u201cfondness\u201d) If wandering through cemeteries, imagining the lives of those who lay beneath the poems and quotes, and taking pictures of the tombstones is something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}