{"id":180,"date":"2018-03-22T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:36:35","slug":"pirandellos-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/sicily\/pirandellos-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirandello\u2019s funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/pirandello.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[180]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/pirandello-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/pirandello-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/pirandello-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the authors\u2019 sites we\u2019ve visited over the trip have memorialized their legacy in a different way. While Lampedusa\u2019s home has become a guided tour and residential space and Sciascia\u2019s hometown a host of his museum and statue, Pirandello\u2019s home had been turned into a museum and a space for his tomb. Pirandello, the master of the school of thought that life just puts us into all these different forms, we can never truly be ourselves unless we go \u201ccrazy,\u201d asked for a no-frills funeral\u2014turns out he got three funerals and an abstract tomb\/memorial in the backyard of his former house, which now displays all his documents, manuscripts, and family\u2019s paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the authors\u2019 sites we\u2019ve visited over the trip have memorialized their legacy in a different way. While Lampedusa\u2019s home has become a guided tour and residential space and Sciascia\u2019s hometown a host of his museum and statue, Pirandello\u2019s home had been turned into a museum and a space for his tomb. Pirandello, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}