{"id":44955,"date":"2014-07-06T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lights_camera_mortician_the_rise_of_fun_funerals\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:18:07","slug":"lights_camera_mortician_the_rise_of_fun_funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44955","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Camera, Mortician! The Rise of &#39;Fun Funerals&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;m asked to do both [magic and funerals] at once,&#8221; said Lee, 76, a licensed funeral director from White Plains, New York. &#8220;People have come to know both sides of me, so they ask. And I say, why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who long ago claimed the moniker &#8220;mortgician&#8221; in his AOL email address, wouldn&#8217;t call himself a pioneer or part of any special movement in after-death care. But he&#8217;s among many who are turning the idea of the solemn, sedate funeral on its head.<\/p>\n<p>Call it the rise of the personalized &#8220;fun funeral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wide range of what&#8217;s considered &#8220;creative&#8221; or &#8220;unusual&#8221; when burying a loved one means there are little to no statistics on such practices, but industry experts say redesigning the standard funeral is increasingly popular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/07\/05\/fun-funerals_n_5551967.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;m asked to do both [magic and funerals] at once,&#8221; said Lee, 76, a licensed funeral director from White Plains, New York. &#8220;People have come to know both sides of me, so they ask. And I say, why not?&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44955\">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":[48,39,40,49,50,209,582,438,149,194,93,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-general-interest","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-humor-trivia","category-movies-television","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955","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=44955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}