{"id":45483,"date":"2014-08-05T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_scarce_cemetery_space_creates_prices_to_die_for_in_many_cities\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:06:56","slug":"bloomberg_scarce_cemetery_space_creates_prices_to_die_for_in_many_cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45483","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Scarce Cemetery Space Creates Prices to Die For in Many Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in death, you can\u2019t escape the property bubble.<\/p>\n<p>From New York to London, growing populations are competing with the deceased for land, driving up real-estate costs well into the afterlife. In Asian megacities, where cremation is the norm, even space for urns is in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s like any other piece of real estate,\u201d\u009d says Amy Cunningham, a New York state licensed funeral director. \u201cPrices have conspired to put burials out of the range of most people\u2019s budgets.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-08-04\/scarce-cemetery-space-creates-prices-to-die-for-cities.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in death, you can\u2019t escape the property bubble. From New York to London, growing populations are competing with the deceased for land, driving up real-estate costs well into the afterlife. In Asian megacities, where cremation is the norm, even<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45483\">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":[48,39,40,582,589,438,149,600,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483","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=45483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}