{"id":267522,"date":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267522"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","slug":"slovak-brothers-win-burial-competition-with-fastest-neatest-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267522","title":{"rendered":"Slovak brothers win burial competition with fastest, neatest grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two brothers from Slovakia won a grave-digging competition at an international exhibition of funeral, burial and cremation services on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ladislav and Csaba Skladan, aged 43 and 41 respectively, dug a grave 1.5 meters deep, two meters long and 90 centimeters wide in 54 minutes in the western Slovak town of Trencin, beating 10 other two-member teams from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary as a small audience cheered loudly.<\/p>\n<p>Their grave was also the neatest, a five-member jury agreed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-267529 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-10T170209Z_1_LYNXMPECA913Z_RTROPTP_2_SLOVAKIA-GRAVEDIGGING.jpg\" alt=\"2016-11-10t170209z_1_lynxmpeca913z_rtroptp_2_slovakia-gravedigging\" width=\"528\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to show and appreciate the hard work of grave diggers,&#8221; said Ladislav Striz, who established the contest last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most Slovak graveyards are so crowded and spaces between graves so narrow that we need human diggers instead of machines,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They work hard, come rain, come snow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy we won, it&#8217;s a satisfaction after fifteen years in this job,&#8221; Csaba Skladan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to focus on speed today but usually, when the weather is nice and I can chat with my brother, it&#8217;s a dream job,&#8221; added Ladislav Skladan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two brothers from Slovakia won a grave-digging competition at an international exhibition of funeral, burial and cremation services on Thursday. Ladislav and Csaba Skladan, aged 43 and 41 respectively, dug a grave 1.5 meters deep, two meters long and 90 centimeters wide in 54 minutes in the western Slovak town of Trencin, beating 10 other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":267527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[13535,9172,13536],"class_list":["post-267522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd","tag-grave-digging","tag-odd-but-true","tag-slovakia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}