{"id":67,"date":"2026-11-03T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:30:10","slug":"why-we-give-flowers-to-those-in-grief-or-buy-them-for-ourselves-when-were-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Why we give flowers to those in grief\u2014or buy them for ourselves when we&#8217;re sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; color: #334155; margin-bottom: 25px;\">During his renowned excavations at the Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki located burial sites containing pollen and flower fragments from various species of wildflowers. He interpreted this as evidence that Neanderthals may have placed flowers around their dead at their burial sites around 60,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-grief-buy-sad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block; padding:12px 26px; background:#0f172a; color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; border-radius:6px; text-decoration:none;\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his renowned excavations at the Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki located burial sites containing pollen and flower fragments from various species of wildflowers. He interpreted this as evidence that Neanderthals may have placed flowers around their dead at their burial sites around 60,000 years ago. Read Full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}