{"id":67780,"date":"2018-01-31T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67780"},"modified":"2018-01-31T06:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:26:04","slug":"marketwatch-sticker-shock-why-people-spend-10000-on-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67780","title":{"rendered":"(Marketwatch) Sticker shock: Why people spend $10,000 on funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning for a funeral is one of the most emotionally strained financial decisions a consumer will make in his or her life, and some funeral providers appear to be profiting from a lack of transparency in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Very few funeral homes advertise price information on their websites, according to a new report from the Funeral Consumers Alliance and the Consumer Federation of America, which advocates for a \u201cmeaningful, dignified and affordable\u201d funeral. Of 193 funeral homes with websites the report surveyed, only 30 (16%) posted the price information that the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s \u201cfuneral rule\u201d requires them to hand to customers who ask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/amp\/story\/guid\/E4A22808-034D-11E7-AF0E-6FD7C0D42EFF\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning for a funeral is one of the most emotionally strained financial decisions a consumer will make in his or her life, and some funeral providers appear to be profiting from a lack of transparency in the industry. Very few<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67780\">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":[582,438,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-death-burial-funerals","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780","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=67780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67782,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions\/67782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}