{"id":6749,"date":"2015-04-27T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:35:22","slug":"funerary-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/funerary-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"funerary practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6750\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/140412_A014924-futenma-gyard-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/140412_A014924-futenma-gyard-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Futenma\" width=\"1028\" height=\"684\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/140412_A014924-futenma-gyard-sign.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/140412_A014924-futenma-gyard-sign-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/140412_A014924-futenma-gyard-sign-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Much custom involved with how to treat the dead. I can&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_writing_system\" target=\"_blank\">hiragana<\/a>. Found out months later the sign reads:<br \/>\n&#8220;If you trash garbage here, you are sentenced to five years\u2019 penal servitude or<br \/>\npay a fine of ten million yen under the law.<br \/>Moushi Hanashiro Family&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6751\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHR726C4-ARLINGTON-HANDS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHR726C4-ARLINGTON-HANDS.jpg\" alt=\"Arlington Cemetery\" width=\"850\" height=\"593\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHR726C4-ARLINGTON-HANDS.jpg 850w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CHR726C4-ARLINGTON-HANDS-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are no signs in Arlington dictating behavior. We were dressed down by grave police for our behavior. The self appointed monitor accused us of being disrespectful. On the contrary, this is how we honor our dead.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,56,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-dead","category-parts","category-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}