{"id":98880876,"date":"2011-11-28T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/death-to-smoochy-paris-cemetery-to-ban-kissing-oscar-wilde-s-tomb\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:26:54","slug":"death-to-smoochy-paris-cemetery-to-ban-kissing-oscar-wilde-s-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/death-to-smoochy-paris-cemetery-to-ban-kissing-oscar-wilde-s-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Death to Smoochy: Paris Cemetery to Ban Kissing Oscar Wilde\u2019s Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, female fans visiting the tomb of Oscar Wilde have donned red lipstick before kissing the writer\u2019s headstone, a practice that must leave the hedonistic scribe smiling in his grave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, over the years, excessive touching and ensuing cleaning has led to the deterioration of the monument, jeopardizing its future. That\u2019s why officials at Paris\u2019 famed Pere Lachaise Cemetery are cracking down on the post-mortem make-outs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though a hefty fine is already in place for the practice, officials are now going to even greater lengths to save the stone. A glass pane will soon surround the monument protecting it from wandering lips.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/28\/oscar-wildes-tomb-will-al_n_1116062.html?ref=travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Huffington Post <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ziubinski\/5739051620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Ziubinski <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, female fans visiting the tomb of Oscar Wilde have donned red lipstick before kissing the writer\u2019s headstone, a practice that must leave the hedonistic scribe smiling in his grave. &nbsp; However, over the years, excessive touching and ensuing cleaning has led to the deterioration of the monument, jeopardizing its future. That\u2019s why officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896998,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880876\/revisions\/98896998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}