{"id":64802,"date":"2017-10-27T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64802"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:29:21","slug":"nyt-liquefaction-an-alternative-to-burial-and-cremation-gains-in-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64802","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Liquefaction, An Alternative to Burial and Cremation, Gains in popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you want done with your body after you die?<\/p>\n<p>It is an unnerving but important question, and for most Americans there have long been only two obvious choices: burial or cremation.<\/p>\n<p>But a third option, a liquefaction process called by a variety of names \u2014flameless cremation, green cremation or the \u201cFire to Water\u201d method \u2014 is starting togain popularity throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains through the method, chemically known asalkaline hydrolysis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/19\/business\/flameless-cremation.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you want done with your body after you die? It is an unnerving but important question, and for most Americans there have long been only two obvious choices: burial or cremation. But a third option, a liquefaction process<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64802\">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":[438,178,155,108,95,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64802","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=64802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64804,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64802\/revisions\/64804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}