{"id":27834,"date":"2016-06-02T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27834"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:08:06","slug":"art-of-mourning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27834","title":{"rendered":"Art of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/miniature-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"Miniature\" title=\"Miniature\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Hayden Peters is one of the world&#8217;s foremost collectors of &#8220;mourning jewelry,&#8221; and he showcases &#8220;memorial, mourning, sentimental jewellery (sic) and art&#8221; on the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmourning.com\/\">Art of Mourning<\/a> site.  There are photos and descriptions of art, jewelry, accessories, textiles, and ephemera from many different periods and cultures.  The site also has a nice resource section, including a discussion of common symbolism, a list of books on &#8220;funeralia,&#8221; and contact information for several vendors who handle such items.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fantastic resource for funeral artwork and mementos mori, and it makes me wish I had the kind of disposable income that would let me collect this stuff.  It&#8217;s just gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus Link: Collectors Weekly did an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/an-interview-with-antique-mourning-jewelry-collector-hayden-peters\/\">interview<\/a> with Peters, discussing the history of mourning jewelry and how he got started collecting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Peters is one of the world&#8217;s foremost collectors of &#8220;mourning jewelry,&#8221; and he showcases &#8220;memorial, mourning, sentimental jewellery (sic) and art&#8221; on the wonderful Art of Mourning site. There are photos and descriptions of art, jewelry, accessories, textiles, and ephemera from many different periods and cultures. The site also has a nice resource section, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27835,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27834\/revisions\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}