{"id":12541,"date":"2009-04-29T21:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_tight_economy_puts_the_squeeze_on_death_rites\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T21:34:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:34:39","slug":"rns_tight_economy_puts_the_squeeze_on_death_rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12541","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Tight economy puts the squeeze on death rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Leonard Horowitz died at Putnam Hospital recently (April 20), the 92-year-old developmentally disabled man left behind no family, no friends, no savings and no final requests.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Horowitz was buried with full Jewish rites at Staten Island&#8217;s Mount Richmond Cemetery, where Rabbi Shmuel Plafker recited blessings as two workers lowered Horowitz&#8217;s plain pine casket into the muddy ground.<\/p>\n<p>The brief ceremony, which concluded within 20 minutes and with Plafker the only mourner present, was the second of the morning for the Hebrew Free Burial Association, a nonprofit organization founded in 1888 to provide funerals for underprivileged Jews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=17998\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Leonard Horowitz died at Putnam Hospital recently (April 20), the 92-year-old developmentally disabled man left behind no family, no friends, no savings and no final requests. Nevertheless, Horowitz was buried with full Jewish rites at Staten Island&#8217;s Mount Richmond<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12541\">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-12541","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\/12541","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=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}