{"id":249240,"date":"2013-10-23T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/23\/the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T03:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T03:51:05","slug":"the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/23\/the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-249240 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/23\/the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture\/attachment\/249241\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo1_500-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/23\/the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture\/attachment\/249242\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo2_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_m46hwxAr8w1qfas6bo2_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><sub>The kiss of death.<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><sub>This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona\u2019s Poblenou Cemetery.\u00a0 The Kiss of Death (<\/sub><em><sub>El Pet\u00f3 de la Mort\u00a0<\/sub><\/em><sub>in Catalan and\u00a0<\/sub><em><sub>El beso de la muerte<\/sub><\/em>\u00a0<sub>in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? Little wonder the sculpture elicits strong and varying responses from whoever gazes upon it.<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kiss of death. This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona\u2019s Poblenou Cemetery.\u00a0 The Kiss of Death (El Pet\u00f3 de la Mort\u00a0in Catalan and\u00a0El beso de la muerte\u00a0in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/23\/the-kiss-of-death-this-astonishing-sculpture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,581,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249243,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249240\/revisions\/249243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}