{"id":36743,"date":"2013-01-13T23:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_chicago_a_crematorium_holds_open_house_to_demystify_process\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T23:06:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:06:53","slug":"in_chicago_a_crematorium_holds_open_house_to_demystify_process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36743","title":{"rendered":"In Chicago, a Crematorium holds an open house to demystify its process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Grantham of the Cremation Society of Illinois slid open a gray metal door. \u201cThis is where everything starts,\u201d\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors peered into a huge room chilled to 35 degrees and fitted with stacks of long metal shelves on each side.<\/p>\n<p>Homewood, Ill., Mayor Richard Hofeld backed away a few steps. He supports cremation and intends at some point to be a consumer. Still, he found the sight of the cooler where bodies are kept slightly discomfiting. \u201cWe know it\u2019s going to happen, but we don\u2019t want to think about it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20130113\/PC12\/130119799\/1015\/crematorium-holds-open-house-to-demystify-process\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Grantham of the Cremation Society of Illinois slid open a gray metal door. \u201cThis is where everything starts,\u201d\u009d she said. Visitors peered into a huge room chilled to 35 degrees and fitted with stacks of long metal shelves on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36743\">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":[48,39,40,582,589,438,149,184,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-parish-ministry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743","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=36743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}