{"id":10593,"date":"2017-10-13T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/13\/cleaning-the-dead-the-afterlife-rituals-of-the-torajan-people\/"},"modified":"2017-10-13T01:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:23:06","slug":"cleaning-the-dead-the-afterlife-rituals-of-the-torajan-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10593","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning the dead:  the afterlife rituals of the Torajan people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 WARNING: this gallery contains graphic images of dead bodiesFor the Torajan people of Indonesia, death is part of a spiritual journey: families keep the mummified remains of their deceased relatives in their homes for years \u2013 and traditionally invite them to join for lunch on a daily basis \u2013 before they are eventually buried. Even then, they are regularly exhumed to be cleaned and cared for Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2017\/oct\/13\/cleaning-the-dead-the-afterlife-rituals-of-the-torajan-people\" target=\"_blank\">Cleaning the dead:  the afterlife rituals of the Torajan people<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 WARNING: this gallery contains graphic images of dead bodiesFor the Torajan people of Indonesia, death is part of a spiritual journey: families keep the mummified remains of their deceased relatives in their homes for years \u2013 and traditionally invite them to join for lunch on a daily basis \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}