{"id":1041,"date":"2003-12-29T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/12\/29\/1041\/"},"modified":"2003-12-29T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T16:34:13","slug":"1041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/12\/29\/1041\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before the bodies are wrapped and bound, however, the blankets are opened twice: first so that a cleric can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A36948-2003Dec28.html\" title=\"&quot;When officials from all sectors convened after dark that day, the unofficial subtotal that emerged was 28,000.  But that was Saturday.&quot;\">rub a bit of dirt<\/a> on the face and hands of the dead. In extreme circumstances, the ritual is considered an acceptable substitute for washing the body.<\/p>\n<p>Then a man with a video camera bends over the face, panning down to a number written on a scrap of newsprint folded into the funeral shroud. The footage will be made available to families looking for loved ones, along with a record of where they were buried.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" title=\"The Washington Post\">Post<\/a>, a description of people trying to impart spiritual significance to the mass-grave burial of tens of thousands.  It&#8217;s pretty affecting.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they&#8217;re getting plenty of aid in Bam, which is good&#8211;even American planes landed there, and were welcomed, for the first time in ten years (edit:  twenty-two).   But it doesn&#8217;t seem likely that any amount of aid is going to make much of a difference now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before the bodies are wrapped and bound, however, the blankets are opened twice: first so that a cleric can rub a bit of dirt on the face and hands of the dead. In extreme circumstances, the ritual is considered an acceptable substitute for washing the body. Then a man with a video camera bends over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injustice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}