{"id":44520,"date":"2014-06-10T02:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_prime_real_estate_at_the_cemetery_is_a_plot_next_to_an_idol\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T02:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:04:56","slug":"nyt_prime_real_estate_at_the_cemetery_is_a_plot_next_to_an_idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44520","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Prime Real Estate at the Cemetery Is a Plot Next to an Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Mr. Goines and others with similar ideas about where they want to be when they die, it is a different kind of hero worship, and puts a new twist on the real estate clich\u00c3\u00a9 \u201clocation, location, location.\u201d\u009d It could be the ultimate form of devotion, putting yourself closer to someone you admired than you ever were in life \u201d\u201d especially if the only words you ever spoke to a favorite celebrity were \u201cCan I have your autograph?\u201d\u009d or \u201cCan I take a selfie with you?\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d or it could be the ultimate way to elevate oneself. You may not be famous, but proximity to someone who was could bestow some prestige.<\/p>\n<p>For Mr. Goines and others with similar ideas about where they want to be when they die, it is a different kind of hero worship, and puts a new twist on the real estate clich\u00c3\u00a9 \u201clocation, location, location.\u201d\u009d It could be the ultimate form of devotion, putting yourself closer to someone you admired than you ever were in life \u201d\u201d especially if the only words you ever spoke to a favorite celebrity were \u201cCan I have your autograph?\u201d\u009d or \u201cCan I take a selfie with you?\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d or it could be the ultimate way to elevate oneself. You may not be famous, but proximity to someone who was could bestow some prestige.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/10\/nyregion\/prime-real-estate-at-the-cemetery-is-a-plot-next-to-an-idol.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mr. Goines and others with similar ideas about where they want to be when they die, it is a different kind of hero worship, and puts a new twist on the real estate clich\u00c3\u00a9 \u201clocation, location, location.\u201d\u009d It could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44520\">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":[48,39,42,438,132,155,184,129,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-music","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520","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=44520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}