{"id":329,"date":"2011-10-31T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T22:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-12-23T16:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:11:23","slug":"beyond-the-great-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the great beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/science-vs-myth\/afterlife\/space-burial.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Burial image\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4c\/Burial.jpg\" alt=\"Burial image\" width=\"230\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Caustic13, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyone can make a bucket list, but why stop with stuff you want to accomplish while you\u2019re alive? Death offers all kinds of opportunities that life simply cannot match: You can be transformed into a diamond, launched in fireworks, propelled in ammunition, or installed as a permanent part of a coral reef community \u2014 none of which I would recommend doing while still drawing breath.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for those who prefer their final resting place out on the final frontier, there&#8217;s the ultimate infrequent flyer plan \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/science-vs-myth\/afterlife\/space-burial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Space Burial Works<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/science-vs-myth\/afterlife\/space-burial-quiz.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> To Star-stuff We Return: The Space Burial Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone can make a bucket list, but why stop with stuff you want to accomplish while you\u2019re alive? Death offers all kinds of opportunities that life simply cannot match: You can be transformed into a diamond, launched in fireworks, propelled in ammunition, or installed as a permanent part of a coral reef community \u2014 none &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond the great beyond<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,12,63,14,29,64,3,57],"tags":[81,24,167,170,168,45,79,169],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-consumer","category-culture","category-green","category-quiz","category-religion","category-science","category-space","tag-aerodynamics","tag-behavior","tag-burial","tag-commercial-rocketry","tag-cremation","tag-family","tag-nasa","tag-ritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}