{"id":23,"date":"2010-11-10T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-11-10T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:07:11","slug":"so-many-bones-the-catacombs-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/so-many-bones-the-catacombs-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"So many bones &#8211; the Catacombs of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our second day in the great city, we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catacombs_of_Paris\">Catacombs of Paris<\/a>. The quick and dirty way to describe it would be as an &#8220;underground cemetery,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t seem to do the place justice. There were stacks and stacks and stacks of human bones, stacked fastidiously and with immense care during the 17th and 18th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>As a museum experience, visiting the Catacombs was very unique &#8211; I don&#8217;t know when and if I&#8217;ll ever see piles upon piles of very old bones again in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Skulls:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvnemFc61qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An underground stone sculpture, of sorts:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvo8H6Q51qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More bones:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvp0Tnir1qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We walked down hallway after hallway (all underground) of bones stacked just like this:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvq0b3ro1qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti next to ancient inscriptions:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvrwSvzF1qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alexis in front of some inscriptions:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lbnvsxREN11qakpqv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S. As we left, a guard searched our bags. Why? Because people actually STEAL BONES from the Catacombs. There were about half a dozen or so bones and a skull behind him on a table that he&#8217;d found in peoples&#8217; bags. Seriously? WHO STEALS HUMAN BONES FROM A MUSEUM?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our second day in the great city, we visited the Catacombs of Paris. The quick and dirty way to describe it would be as an &#8220;underground cemetery,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t seem to do the place justice. There were stacks and stacks and stacks of human bones, stacked fastidiously and with immense care during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}