{"id":11399,"date":"2009-02-23T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_the_unclaimed_ashes_of_hard_times\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T01:00:01","slug":"la_times_the_unclaimed_ashes_of_hard_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: The unclaimed ashes of hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Kemp rummaged through a supply closet for a box of staples, being careful not to jostle the blue paper bags of cremated remains on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a great spot for ashes, but he ran out of space long ago. In the grand scheme of things, the closet is as good a resting place as any.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, the owner of Haley Funeral Directors, is used to a certain rhythm of life and death.<\/p>\n<p>Good times mean fancy funerals &#8212; open bars with top-drawer liquor, horse-drawn carriages, jazz bands for all-night jam sessions. Bad times mean unclaimed remains &#8212; funeral fees often being a low priority for the living.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-on-the-edge-funeral22-2009feb22,0,2914598.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Kemp rummaged through a supply closet for a box of staples, being careful not to jostle the blue paper bags of cremated remains on the floor. It&#8217;s not a great spot for ashes, but he ran out of space<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11399\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,40,438,149,184,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-parish-ministry","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}