{"id":2846,"date":"2017-12-06T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2017-12-06T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:49:57","slug":"life-of-a-gravedigger-josephine-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/life-of-a-gravedigger-josephine-bruce\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of a Gravedigger &#8211; Josephine Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cue: In &#8216;Life of a Gravedigger&#8217; learn about the day to day life of a vastly overlooked profession. Discover the many duties and responsibilities of a gravedigger in this digital story.<\/p>\n<p>Ins: &#8220;My names Bill&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Outs: &#8220;just assist them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dur: 6&#8217;48&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ovs5D5SyyK8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8216;Life of a Gravedigger&#8217; was recorded in Manor Park Cemetery in East London. The reason that I chose to do this topic for my digital story as I believe that the gravedigging profession is overlooked and also the extent of the difficulty in doing this job is overlooked. I wanted to inform people on what its like to be a gravedigger and what it takes to do it as a full time job.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed Manor Park&#8217;s Chargehand Bill who helps in the overall maintenance of the Cemetery and also preparing and digging out the graves. I also interviewed Janet Briggs, who is the Manager at the Cemetery so that people could also have an insight into the administration and organisation side of burials and the grave-digging industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue: In &#8216;Life of a Gravedigger&#8217; learn about the day to day life of a vastly overlooked profession. Discover the many duties and responsibilities of a gravedigger in this digital story. Ins: &#8220;My names Bill&#8230;&#8221; Outs: &#8220;just assist them.&#8221; Dur:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}