{"id":58166,"date":"2018-09-13T01:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/13\/dianas-funeral-re-enacted-in-salford-with-jill-dando-and-a-mariachi-band\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T01:06:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:06:03","slug":"dianas-funeral-re-enacted-in-salford-with-jill-dando-and-a-mariachi-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=58166","title":{"rendered":"Diana&#039;s funeral: re-enacted in Salford with Jill Dando and a mariachi band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It provoked tabloid fury. But this bizarre spectacle, complete with car wreck, posed tough questions about death, royals and the social order. Our writer joined the procession\u2018Princess Diana to be EXORCISED in \u2018sick and twisted\u2019 FUNERAL re-enactment,\u201d raged a recent tabloid headline, announcing a \u201csatirical remake\u201d at Salford\u2019s White Hotel to mark the 21st anniversary of her death. The paper even quoted Charlie Proctor, editor of regal website Royal Central, who blasted: \u201cWhether you are a monarchist or a republican, some events should be beyond humour, and the funeral of Princess Diana is one thing nobody should be laughing at.\u201dBut are the artists involved in this event really laughing at Diana? Or is something more interesting going on? I decide to find out for myself, and so I join the procession as a coffin draped in flags is carried through the streets of Salford. As requested, everyone is wearing black and many carry flowers. The procession walks in respectful silence while traffic slows, bystanders gawp and people peer from behind twitching curtains. Genuine paparazzi hurry after the procession, just as they chased Diana\u2019s Mercedes before the fatal crash in Paris. Someone says: \u201cThis is going to be the weirdest experience we\u2019re going to have this year.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/sep\/13\/diana-funeral-re-enacted-salford-jill-dando-mariachi-band-princess-wales\" target=\"_blank\">Diana&#039;s funeral: re-enacted in Salford with Jill Dando and a mariachi band<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It provoked tabloid fury. But this bizarre spectacle, complete with car wreck, posed tough questions about death, royals and the social order. Our writer joined the procession\u2018Princess Diana to be EXORCISED in \u2018sick and twisted\u2019 FUNERAL re-enactment,\u201d raged a recent tabloid headline, announcing a \u201csatirical remake\u201d at Salford\u2019s White Hotel [&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-58166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58166","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=58166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}