{"id":15054,"date":"2017-12-07T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2017-12-07T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T05:00:24","slug":"awesome-gravesite-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/12\/07\/awesome-gravesite-decoration.html","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Gravesite Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI was just heading to bed after a long day at WordPress when I spotted this picture in a folder of hundreds of photos I took last year and, until now, forgot about. It&#8217;s a burial site of a famous composer buried in Astoria, where someone put a toy piano on top of a cushion of plastic flowers. Any Astorian should be able to guess the composer, or scroll down to see.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15055\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15055\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15055\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/DSC09108-1024x768.jpg?resize=735%2C551&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Awesome Gravesite Decoration\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awesome Gravesite Decoration<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is, of course, the burial site of Scott Joplin, the great American ragtime composer who lay buried in an unmarked grave until the 1970s at St. Michael&#8217;s Cemetery in Astoria.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15056\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15056\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2017\/12\/DSC09107-1024x768.jpg?resize=735%2C551&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scott Joplin Burial Site\" width=\"735\" height=\"551\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Joplin Burial Site<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just heading to bed after a long day at WordPress when I spotted this picture in a folder of hundreds of photos I took last year and, until now, forgot about. It&#8217;s a burial site of a famous composer buried in Astoria, where someone put a toy piano on top of a cushion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calvary-stories","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC09108-1024x768-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3UO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}