{"id":484,"date":"2004-09-24T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/?p=484"},"modified":"2004-09-24T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T18:24:38","slug":"when-the-grim-reaper-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/when-the-grim-reaper-knocks\/","title":{"rendered":"When the grim reaper knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in the mail today (my apologies if it doesn&#8217;t reproduce well).  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-images\/foresthillssm.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"foresthillsletter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begs the question &#8212; Why do cemeteries have to direct market?<\/p>\n<p>Also, right now, since I don&#8217;t have a spouse or children, my &#8220;loved ones&#8221; would be my brothers and sister.  I&#8217;m not really looking to spare them any hassle over my corpse.  In fact, I would say I would want them to have some kind of hassle to make up for all the times I had to sit on the hump in the backseat or not get to watch my show on TV.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the mailing was the envelope (I&#8217;ve highlighted the hilarity so you can&#8217;t miss it).  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-images\/foresthillsenv.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"envelope\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that suck if you were like me, but currently sitting at someone&#8217;s deathbed or dying.  I would be too curious not to open something like that, but I might not be in such a hurry to chuck whoever&#8217;s vigil I was sitting under the earth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/when-the-grim-reaper-knocks\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in the mail today (my apologies if it doesn&#8217;t reproduce well). It begs the question &#8212; Why do cemeteries have to direct market? Also, right now, since I don&#8217;t have a spouse or children, my &#8220;loved ones&#8221; would be my brothers and sister. I&#8217;m not really looking to spare them any hassle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-7O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}