{"id":847,"date":"2016-07-29T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=847"},"modified":"2020-07-30T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:44:29","slug":"burying-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/burying-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Dead Photograph, 1865"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_844\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-844\" class=\"wp-image-844 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-1000x500.jpg\" alt=\"John Reekie, &quot;A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia,&quot; 1865, via Library of Congress. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-1000x500.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-250x125.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-500x250.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1-624x312.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/burialparty1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Reekie, &#8220;A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia,&#8221; 1865, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2002713099\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Death pervaded every aspect of life during the years of the Civil War. This gruesome photograph, taken after the battle of Cold Harbor, shows the hasty burial procedures used to reckon with unprecedented death. Dirty jobs like this were often left to Black soldiers or freedpeople in Contraband Camps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death pervaded every aspect of life during the years of the Civil War. This gruesome photograph, taken after the battle of Cold Harbor, shows the hasty burial procedures used to reckon with unprecedented death. Dirty jobs like this were often left to Black soldiers or freedpeople in Contraband Camps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}