{"id":46517,"date":"2014-10-23T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/northumberland_news_green_burials_offered_at_st-_james_anglican_church_in_e\/"},"modified":"2014-10-23T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:01:11","slug":"northumberland_news_green_burials_offered_at_st-_james_anglican_church_in_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46517","title":{"rendered":"(Northumberland News) Green burials offered at St. James Anglican Church in Eastern Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perched on a hill overlooking the countryside, a little historic church is going green in a unique way.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery at St. James Anglican Church is poised to offer green burials in the community thanks to the efforts of parishioner Gerald Beavan, 78. Mr. Beavan, who came to Canada from England in 1974, said his grandparents were buried in simple pine boxes without all the additions of modern funerals. He wants to offer that simple, environmentally friendly type of burial to a community he has called home since 1978. He came up with the idea to create a place in the church\u2019s cemetery for green burials about five years ago, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is you go back to the old way of burial,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Beavan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandnews.com\/news-story\/4928110-green-burials-offered-at-st-james-anglican-church-in-roseneath\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perched on a hill overlooking the countryside, a little historic church is going green in a unique way. The cemetery at St. James Anglican Church is poised to offer green burials in the community thanks to the efforts of parishioner<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46517\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,388,74,207,438,140,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-death-burial-funerals","category-energy-natural-resources","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46517","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=46517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}