{"id":6395,"date":"2010-11-14T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T20:00:54","slug":"coffins-of-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/coffins-of-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"coffins of ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apparently coffin-making in Ghana is like a really BIG thing, an art unto itself. Check out these images – all found via google image search<\/a> – of some truly awesome caskets to get buried in (only after being paraded around in a chicken, a shark, or a nike shoe that is!). Some icons are popular and repeated: the Nokia phone representing connectivity with its E.T.-like finger-touch boot screen; the Rolls Royce representing wealth and status; various creatures and animals with their own local meanings I’m sure. Text, usually a proverb – “Everyone helps to carry the burden of a funeral” – is also common on the sides of the coffin. The more you know!:<\/p>\n

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Apparently coffin-making in Ghana is like a really BIG thing, an art unto itself. Check out these images – all found via google image search – of some truly awesome caskets to get buried in (only after being paraded around in a chicken, a shark, or a nike shoe that is!). Some icons are popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,17],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-stuffs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/32-25.jpg?fit=1650%2C1211&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1F9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}