{"id":52036,"date":"2015-10-12T00:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_cost_of_dying_is_rising_again\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:30:29","slug":"church_times_cost_of_dying_is_rising_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52036","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Cost of dying is rising again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy are being urged to talk about funeral costs during their pastoral visits to grieving families, to help people avoid getting into debt paying for a good send-off for their loved one.<\/p>\n<p>In the past ten years, prices have soared by 80 per cent. The average cost of a funeral in the UK is now \u00c2\u00a38427.<\/p>\n<p>Last year alone, the cost of dying rose seven times faster than the cost of living, and funeral services were the top transaction on credit cards in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/9-october\/news\/uk\/cost-of-dying-is-rising-again\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clergy are being urged to talk about funeral costs during their pastoral visits to grieving families, to help people avoid getting into debt paying for a good send-off for their loved one. In the past ten years, prices have soared<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52036\">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":[36,48,39,40,74,389,438,149,178,168,184,177,593,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52036","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=52036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}