{"id":70,"date":"2006-12-04T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durcan.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/sat-next-to-a-mortician\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:56:02","slug":"sat-next-to-a-mortician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Sat next to a Mortician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat next to a mortician on my flight home from LA last night.    These are the things I&#8217;ve learned:<\/p>\n<p>1. he actually laughed at my joke: &#8220;everyone&#8217;s dying to get in&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n2. he hates nextel service, but likes the nextel phones  (me too!)<br \/>\n3. He&#8217;s not afraid of ghosts<br \/>\n4. In his funeral parlor, he hired others to do the &#8220;dirty&#8221; work.   But he handles special funerals<br \/>\n5. His office is on 40th street near bryant park.  I forgot to ask exactly where&#8230;but I still thought that was bizzare.<br \/>\n6. He doesn&#8217;t go around saying &#8220;I see dead people&#8221;<br \/>\n7. He&#8217;s used to the smell of formaldehyde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat next to a mortician on my flight home from LA last night. These are the things I&#8217;ve learned: 1. he actually laughed at my joke: &#8220;everyone&#8217;s dying to get in&#8230;&#8221; 2. he hates nextel service, but likes the nextel phones (me too!) 3. He&#8217;s not afraid of ghosts 4. In his funeral parlor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}