{"id":733563,"date":"2022-08-29T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=733563"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:09:25","slug":"when-and-why-did-humans-start-using-tombstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=733563","title":{"rendered":"When and why did humans start using tombstones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased&#8217;s name, date of birth and death, they also often carry inscribed tributes. They&#8217;ve been around a long time, across a wide variety of cultures.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-08-humans-tombstones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When and why did humans start using tombstones?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased&#8217;s name, date of birth and death, they also often&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}