{"id":2286,"date":"2024-08-09T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2286-graveyard-shift.html"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:02:00","slug":"graveyard-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2286-graveyard-shift.html","title":{"rendered":"Graveyard Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2955 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/75-_G2A9807-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat a strange sight among the graves of Cill Mhic Dhuach, a man in a hazmat suit power cleaning a tombstone with the precision of a dental hygienist.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps the cleaning is required as part of some study where researchers need unrestricted access to the stone surface. Perhaps it is part of some tourist beautification program. Or perhaps a family is paying respect by up keeping the grave of an ancestor.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUltimately, lichens and their associated bio-communities will be the ultimate protectors of the stones and the stories they hold. I hope that to protect the past, the graveyard shift ultimately becomes a thing of the past.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#CillMhicDhuac #Kilmacduagh #countyclare #ireland #travel #journalism #blackandwhite<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a strange sight among the graves of Cill Mhic Dhuach, a man in a hazmat suit power cleaning a tombstone with the precision of a dental hygienist. Perhaps the cleaning is required as part of some study where researchers need unrestricted access to the stone surface. Perhaps it is part of some tourist beautification &#8230; <a title=\"Graveyard Shift\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2286-graveyard-shift.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Graveyard Shift\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}