{"id":43833,"date":"2014-04-29T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_in_scotland_church_concerned_at_evidence_of_rising_funeral_costs\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:46:36","slug":"bbc_in_scotland_church_concerned_at_evidence_of_rising_funeral_costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43833","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) In Scotland, Church concerned at evidence of rising funeral costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increase in the cost of funerals has left many families under &#8220;huge strain&#8221; to pay for them, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scotland&#8217;s report showed that in some areas charges have increased by almost 300% in five years.<\/p>\n<p>The average increase was found to be 62% from five years ago, with a 36% rise in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-27190814\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increase in the cost of funerals has left many families under &#8220;huge strain&#8221; to pay for them, according to a report. The Church of Scotland&#8217;s report showed that in some areas charges have increased by almost 300% in five<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43833\">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":[48,39,40,50,582,438,149,199,168,184,593,108,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43833","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=43833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}