{"id":10355,"date":"2014-07-22T05:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:08:46","slug":"the-mummy-that-opens-closes-her-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10355","title":{"rendered":"The Mummy That Opens &#038; Closes Her Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z072214mummy_openseyes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have you heard about the mummy on display in Sicily who appears to open and close her eyes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>Rosalia Lombardo<\/strong> was a two-year-old girl who died of pneumonia in 1920. \u00a0Her grieving father had her embalmed and placed in the catacombs\u00a0beneath the Capuchin convent in Palermo, Sicily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So how\/why do her eyes open?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They don&#8217;t. \u00a0According to <strong>Dario Piombino-Mascali<\/strong>, curator of the <strong>Capuchin Catacombs<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an optical illusion produced by the light that filters through the side windows, which during the day is subject to change,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>io9<\/strong><\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/why-does-this-mummy-appear-to-open-and-close-her-eyes-1593924806\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why Does This Mummy Appear to Open and Close Her Eyes?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 and there you can see a video of the optical illusion and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard about the mummy on display in Sicily who appears to open and close her eyes? Rosalia Lombardo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}