{"id":15832,"date":"2017-02-21T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15832"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:49","slug":"bruce-elliott-discusses-history-behind-funeral-selfies-ottawa-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/bruce-elliott-discusses-history-behind-funeral-selfies-ottawa-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Elliott discusses the history behind funeral selfies in the Ottawa Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Bruce Elliott discusses the history behind funeral selfies in the Ottawa Citizen\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"377\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop-240x377.png\" alt=\"Bruce Elliott\" class=\"wp-image-15870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop-240x377.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop-160x251.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop-400x628.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop-360x565.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bruce-09-10-23-7388-crop.png 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>History Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/bruce-s-elliott\/\">Bruce Elliott<\/a> describes the usage of postmortem photography in the recent Ottawa Citizen article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/the-funeral-selfie-grave-new-world-or-an-instinct-as-old-as-time\">The funeral selfie: Grave new world or an instinct as old as time?<\/a>&#8221; by Megan Gillis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Professor Bruce Elliott describes the usage of postmortem photography in the recent Ottawa Citizen article entitled &#8220;The funeral selfie: Grave new world or an instinct as old as time?&#8221; by Megan Gillis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15871,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions\/15871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}