{"id":92377,"date":"2020-05-04T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92377"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:50:37","slug":"nyt-15-funerals-a-day-the-pace-of-death-stuns-brooklyn-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92377","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) 15 Funerals a Day: The Pace of Death Stuns Brooklyn Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All day long, wood coffins are carried in and out of Al-Rayaan Muslim Funeral Services in Brooklyn. What is meant to be a peaceful, reflective moment for grieving families has given way to a chaotic rhythm. Workers climb into a refrigerated truck and carefully carry the dead into the funeral home for a prayer, then back out to be transported to their final resting place.<\/p>\n<p>They do this an average of 15 times a day in recent weeks. Before coronavirus hit, the home was holding only 20 to 30 funerals a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/04\/nyregion\/coronavirus-nyc-burials-muslim.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">just in case you thought it was the only the jewish community here in NY<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VwwvnnYcqE\">https:\/\/t.co\/VwwvnnYcqE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Rosenblum (@sharkbiotech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sharkbiotech\/status\/1257426481317363712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All day long, wood coffins are carried in and out of Al-Rayaan Muslim Funeral Services in Brooklyn. What is meant to be a peaceful, reflective moment for grieving families has given way to a chaotic rhythm. Workers climb into a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92377\">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":[438,104,426,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-islam","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377","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=92377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92379,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92377\/revisions\/92379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}