{"id":53790,"date":"2016-03-22T00:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_after_funeral_and_cremation_a_shock_the_woman_in_the_coffin_wasnt_mom\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:26:20","slug":"nyt_after_funeral_and_cremation_a_shock_the_woman_in_the_coffin_wasnt_mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53790","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) After Funeral and Cremation, a Shock: The Woman in the Coffin Wasn\u2019t Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They all filed past the open coffin, seeing familiar remnants of Ms. McDonald\u2019s life: a favorite pink blouse and white suit, and her finest jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did they cut off all her hair?\u201d\u009d a son, Errol McDonald, 57, remembers thinking. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s the cancer.\u201d\u009d He bent and kissed her.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes children see what adults cannot. Adults rationalize. Children call it like it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 10-year-old son said, \u201d\u02dcDaddy, that\u2019s not Grandma,\u2019\u201d\u009d recalled Mr. McDonald, a school maintenance worker in Manhattan. \u201cI said, \u201d\u02dcYes, that\u2019s what happens,\u2019\u201d\u009d he told the boy, explaining that people can look different in death&#8230;.[but the 10 year old was right]&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/22\/nyregion\/wrong-woman-cremated-bronx.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They all filed past the open coffin, seeing familiar remnants of Ms. McDonald\u2019s life: a favorite pink blouse and white suit, and her finest jewelry. \u201cWhy did they cut off all her hair?\u201d\u009d a son, Errol McDonald, 57, remembers thinking.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53790\">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":[48,39,101,438,98,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53790","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=53790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}