{"id":35295,"date":"2012-10-25T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_clergy_funerals_and_the_issue_of_suitable_music\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:15:43","slug":"church_times_clergy_funerals_and_the_issue_of_suitable_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35295","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Clergy, Funerals and the Issue of Suitable Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine no &#8220;Imagine&#8221;: it&#8217;s easy if you are a crematorium with a moratorium on &#8220;unsuitable&#8221; songs for funerals.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside its most recent survey on popular funeral music, the largest funeral director in the UK, Co-operative Funeralcare, has revealed that one in four funeral parlours has had song requests turned down by clerics. Among them is John Lennon&#8217;s song, with its lyrics &#8220;Imagine there&#8217;s no heaven&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Huge numbers continue to ask for Frank Sinatra&#8217;s version of &#8220;My Way&#8221;. It has received the highest billing in each of the past seven surveys, and is requested at 15 per cent of all funerals. &#8220;Time To Say Goodbye&#8221;, by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli, is next on the list, followed by Bette Midler&#8217;s &#8220;Wind Beneath My Wings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/19-october\/news\/uk\/funeral-clergy-%E2%80%98you%E2%80%99ll-do-it-my-way%E2%80%99\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine no &#8220;Imagine&#8221;: it&#8217;s easy if you are a crematorium with a moratorium on &#8220;unsuitable&#8221; songs for funerals. Alongside its most recent survey on popular funeral music, the largest funeral director in the UK, Co-operative Funeralcare, has revealed that one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35295\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,438,199,183,132,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295","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=35295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}