{"id":39648,"date":"2013-08-20T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/death_over_dinner_convenes_as_hundreds_of_americans_coordinate_end_of_life_\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:30:54","slug":"death_over_dinner_convenes_as_hundreds_of_americans_coordinate_end_of_life_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39648","title":{"rendered":"Death Over Dinner Convenes As Hundreds Of Americans Coordinate End Of Life Discussions Across U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 45, Laura Sweet has thrown plenty of dinner parties. The routine has become familiar: Pick a date, email invites, fire up a few favorite dishes, pour some wine and let the conversations flow.<\/p>\n<p>But for the former hospice volunteer who lives in Walnut Creek, Calif., the dinner she&#8217;ll host in her apartment on Saturday is bound to stand out&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The meal&#8217;s theme: death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/18\/death-over-dinner_n_3762653.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 45, Laura Sweet has thrown plenty of dinner parties. The routine has become familiar: Pick a date, email invites, fire up a few favorite dishes, pour some wine and let the conversations flow. But for the former hospice volunteer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39648\">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":[48,39,50,209,175,438,100,178,168,96,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39648","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=39648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}