{"id":25778,"date":"2010-07-22T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/22\/an-american-funeral\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:57:04","slug":"an-american-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/an-american-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Recently I witnessed something remarkable-yet altogether ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>I had the honor of being invited to a family&#8217;s memorial service a while ago.  While not a member of this family, I am very close to one member and through him knew the deceased.  To the others, Sylvia was sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, and relationships extending outward from there.  Her own family had scattered after her divorce, and she moved up to Minnesota to be close to her brother&#8217;s family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2010\/07\/an-american-funeral\/\">Read the rest at Quiche Moraine &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I witnessed something remarkable-yet altogether ordinary. I had the honor of being invited to a family&#8217;s memorial service a while ago. While not a member of this family, I am very close to one member and through him knew the deceased. To the others, Sylvia was sister, sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, and relationships extending outward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/an-american-funeral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An American Funeral<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6HM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}