{"id":32849,"date":"2022-10-17T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32849"},"modified":"2022-10-17T18:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:19:57","slug":"human-composting-for-green-burials-closer-to-law-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/10\/17\/human-composting-for-green-burials-closer-to-law-in-new-york.html","title":{"rendered":"Human Composting for \u2018Green\u2019 Burials Closer to Law in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;da thunk the Catholics would oppose this? Hmmm&#8230; I don&#8217;t consider my dead body any more sacred than vegetable trimmings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/environment-and-energy\/human-composting-for-green-burials-closer-to-law-in-new-york\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/urlhttp3A2F2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com2F312Fdb2Ff51409224d0baadc064a484d84542Fhumancomposting.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile not everyone shares the same beliefs with regard to the reverent and respectful treatment of human remains, we believe there are a great many New Yorkers who would be uncomfortable at best with this proposed composting\/fertilizing method, which is more appropriate for vegetable trimmings and eggshells than for human bodies,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/environment-and-energy\/human-composting-for-green-burials-closer-to-law-in-new-york\">Human Composting for \u2018Green\u2019 Burials Closer to Law in New York<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;da thunk the Catholics would oppose this? Hmmm&#8230; I don&#8217;t consider my dead body any more sacred than vegetable trimmings&#8230; \u201cWhile not everyone shares the same beliefs with regard to the reverent and respectful treatment of human remains, we believe there are a great many New Yorkers who would be uncomfortable at best with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/urlhttp3A2F2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com2F312Fdb2Ff51409224d0baadc064a484d84542Fhumancomposting.jpg?fit=960%2C369&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8xP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32852,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32849\/revisions\/32852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}