{"id":16875,"date":"2014-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/01\/08\/hdb-estate-with-grave-links-to-the-past\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:56:42","slug":"hdb-estate-with-grave-links-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/01\/08\/hdb-estate-with-grave-links-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"HDB estate with grave links to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although\u00a0few people\u00a0realize that the graveyards at Tanah Kubur\u00a0Diraja\u00a0are related\u00a0to Singapore history, A\/P John Miksic\u00a0at the department of Southeast Asian Studies from National University of Singapore holds that\u00a0some\u00a0tombs\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0regarded\u00a0as symbols with historical, spiritual significance, which will facilitate people&#8217;s understanding of the past. For instance, the graves in the Radin\u00a0Mas area dating back to the early and mid-19th century,\u00a0are very likely to be a place where devotees can pray for their needs or remember the dead. If you are interested in the topic, more details can be found in the full article below (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lala-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/lala-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"734\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although\u00a0few people\u00a0realize that the graveyards at Tanah Kubur\u00a0Diraja\u00a0are related\u00a0to Singapore history, A\/P John Miksic\u00a0at the department of Southeast Asian Studies from National University of Singapore holds that\u00a0some\u00a0tombs\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0regarded\u00a0as symbols with historical, spiritual significance, which will facilitate people&#8217;s understanding of the past. For instance, the graves in the Radin\u00a0Mas area dating back to the early and mid-19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26043,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/26043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}