{"id":16780,"date":"2015-01-09T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16780"},"modified":"2015-01-09T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:18:03","slug":"grave-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/grave-matters.html","title":{"rendered":"Grave Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16781\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/800px-ChurchRuins.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16781\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/800px-ChurchRuins-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wikimedia commons cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toys aren\u2019t admitted here.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s wisdom in considering that fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, continuing on the theme of death, here\u2019s something funny. \u00a0If you haven\u2019t seen it, you\u2019ll like it. \u00a0If you <em>have<\/em> seen it, you\u2019ll probably <em>still<\/em> find it funny:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=674335039330565&amp;set=vb.176854042412003&amp;type=2&amp;theater\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=674335039330565&amp;set=vb.176854042412003&amp;type=2&amp;theater<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. \u00a0 There\u2019s wisdom in considering that fact. \u00a0 However, continuing on the theme of death, here\u2019s something funny. \u00a0If you haven\u2019t seen it, you\u2019ll like it. \u00a0If you have seen it, you\u2019ll probably still find it funny: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=674335039330565&amp;set=vb.176854042412003&amp;type=2&amp;theater \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grave Matters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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