{"id":52399,"date":"2015-11-24T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_ian_brewerton-these_are_the_strangest_things_ive_seen_as_a_fun\/"},"modified":"2015-11-24T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:00:16","slug":"independent_ian_brewerton-these_are_the_strangest_things_ive_seen_as_a_fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52399","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Ian Brewerton&#8211;These are the strangest things I&#39;ve seen as a funeral director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other [unusual request] involved a lady who came in and wanted to discuss a DIY funeral. After asking a few questions I enquired as to whom the funeral was for. \u201d\u02dcMe\u2019, she said. Seeing the potential challenges of this I looked to establish if she had any children. \u201d\u02dcYes,\u2019 she said. \u201d\u02dcBut they couldn\u2019t face doing it.\u2019 I pointed out the pitfall that if they couldn\u2019t face it, then it would certainly be a tricky proposition with her no longer being around to help. There was a sudden look of comprehension as she said: \u201d\u02dcOh my goodness, I\u2019ve been such a fool \u201d\u201c of course! But it\u2019s been nice talking with you\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/a6745166.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other [unusual request] involved a lady who came in and wanted to discuss a DIY funeral. After asking a few questions I enquired as to whom the funeral was for. \u201d\u02dcMe\u2019, she said. Seeing the potential challenges of this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52399\">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":[48,39,40,49,50,582,589,438,149,199,178,168,194,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52399","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-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-humor-trivia","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399","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=52399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}