{"id":742,"date":"2004-11-27T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=742"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:27","slug":"watch_em_burn_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/27\/watch_em_burn_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8217;em burn over streaming video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm.  I don&#8217;t really know how to explain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=19899\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> so I am not going to even try.  You gotta believe that there is a market for this.  Right?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nDESIGNERS of an Indian high tech crematorium have decided to screen funerals online so that people who can&#8217;t make the ceremony can watch it from the comfort of their own home.\n<br>\n<br>\nThe website will be called www.mokshadham.org [<i>note: website is probably .com and not .org, and it isn&#8217;t up yet<\/i>] which in Sanskrit means &#8220;abode of liberation&#8221;. Most Hindus believe that cremation brings liberation, mukti or moksha. Hence, the site where relatives are burnt is called a samadhi. Holy men, sadhus, may become liberated while they are still alive and so are buried, not burnt. Because of these considerations, Hindus rejoice at death and only the faithless mourn.\n<br>\n<br>\nThe site is expected to be live by June. \n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm. I don&#8217;t really know how to explain this one so I am not going to even try. You gotta believe that there is a market for this. Right? DESIGNERS of an Indian high tech crematorium have decided to screen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/27\/watch_em_burn_o\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}