{"id":215,"date":"2004-05-28T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navroz.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-05-04T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:23:26","slug":"torajan-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Torajan funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Torajan funerals can be large affairs.  They can take upto a year to plan and involve hundreds of guests.<\/p>\n<p>The grandchildren lead a procession of mourners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navroz.com\/indonesia\/toraja12.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pigs waiting to be slaughtered to feed guests.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navroz.com\/indonesia\/toraja11.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remains of a sacrificed buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navroz.com\/indonesia\/toraja10.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Water buffalo being traded in the market, mainly for funerals.  In a country where the average monthly wage is 300-500,000 Rp, a water buffalo is worth 8 &#8211; 15 million.  At the funeral I attended there were a dozen buffalo and 200 pigs slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.navroz.com\/indonesia\/toraja9.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torajan funerals can be large affairs. They can take upto a year to plan and involve hundreds of guests. The grandchildren lead a procession of mourners. Pigs waiting to be slaughtered to feed guests. Remains of a sacrificed buffalo. Water buffalo being traded in the market, mainly for funerals. In a country where the average <a href='https:\/\/navroz.com\/?p=215' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia-2004","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navroz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}