{"id":3077,"date":"2008-01-22T06:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/we_come_to_prop_him_up_in_search_of_a_resonant_human_interest_story_not_to_bury_him.html"},"modified":"2008-01-22T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:27:17","slug":"we_come_to_prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/we_come_to_prop.html","title":{"rendered":"We Come To Prop Him Up In Search Of A Resonant Human Interest Story, Not To Bury Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

The corpse used in a social security check cashing scheme<\/a> was finally laid to rest — this despite Andrea Peyser’s best efforts to revive the body<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Monday was [Virgilio] Cintron’s wake. Monday he was wearing a suit. And for the few dozen people in the world to whom Mr. Cintron was not a punch line or a future bar trivia question, it was a chance to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

A handwritten sign taped to the door of the R. G. Ortiz Funeral Home on West 72nd Street read, “This is a private viewing for family and close friends only!”<\/p>\n

The word “only” was underlined and was strictly enforced. Andrea Peyser of The New York Post got a quick glimpse of Mr. Cintron before she was ushered out. “He’s looking dead,” she reported. A reporter from The Associated Press was shooed away from the door like a dog.<\/p>\n

On the sidewalk, a small, frostbitten press pack hovered, begging for scraps with all the respect it could muster. Most of the mourners demurred. A dapper man with a white mustache shook his head. A woman with long hair waved her hand.<\/p>\n

A younger woman with short hair said, “Unfortunately, we can’t talk to the press because they made a mockery of this.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The corpse used in a social security check cashing scheme was finally laid to rest — this despite Andrea Peyser’s best efforts to revive the body: Monday was [Virgilio] Cintron’s wake. Monday he was wearing a suit. And for the few dozen people in the world to whom Mr. Cintron was not a punch line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}