{"id":44153,"date":"2014-05-19T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cremation_permit_requests_on_the_rise_at_charleston_county_coroners_office\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:00:53","slug":"cremation_permit_requests_on_the_rise_at_charleston_county_coroners_office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44153","title":{"rendered":"Cremation permit requests on the rise at Charleston [South Caorlina] County Coroner&#39;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charleston County Coroner&#8217;s Office reports rising applications from funeral homes for cremation permits as more families opt for an urn of ashes over a traditional burial.<\/p>\n<p>Some said that the change here and statewide is happening because the alternative to a typical funeral has become more acceptable. Others think cremation fits better in a mobile society where people are less likely to have a spot reserved in the church graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trend is catching up with us here. Things don&#8217;t change as rapidly down South,&#8221; said Overton Ganong, spokesman for the Funeral Consumers Alliance of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140518\/PC16\/140519381\/1005\/choice-of-cremation-on-the-rise-locally-and-across-state\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charleston County Coroner&#8217;s Office reports rising applications from funeral homes for cremation permits as more families opt for an urn of ashes over a traditional burial. Some said that the change here and statewide is happening because the alternative<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44153\">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":[48,39,54,175,438,178,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153","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=44153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}