{"id":59752,"date":"2017-05-09T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59752"},"modified":"2017-05-09T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T22:44:28","slug":"telegraph-hymns-at-funerals-dying-out-as-celebratory-pop-songs-become-more-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59752","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Hymns at funerals dying out as &#8216;celebratory&#8217; pop songs become more popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research by insurer SunLife found that 45 per cent of ceremonies now do not include a hymn, and more than half of funeral directors have seen a decrease in religious services.<\/p>\n<p>Younger age groups are more likely to choose secular music, with just 12 per cent of those aged 50 to 54 choosing a hymn, compared to one in four over-65s.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Millar, head of life events at the Church of England, said: &#8220;Perhaps people have a memory of a hymn that feels sad because they have previously sung it at a sad event. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because people are also less used to singing nowadays they might also be more likely to have a recording.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/08\/hymns-funerals-dying-celebratory-pop-songs-become-popular\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by insurer SunLife found that 45 per cent of ceremonies now do not include a hymn, and more than half of funeral directors have seen a decrease in religious services. Younger age groups are more likely to choose secular<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59752\">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":[389,438,199,183,132,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59752","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=59752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59754,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59752\/revisions\/59754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}