{"id":2932,"date":"2008-12-20T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2008-12-20T22:55:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T14:55:42","slug":"lack-of-burial-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/i-was-here\/2008\/12\/20\/lack-of-burial-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of burial plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended a funeral ceremony of Then&#8217;s ex-colleague&#8217;s husband, Benjamin. He passed away suddenly due to heart attack on Friday early morning. The ceremony was held at Tamil Metodist Church, Brickfields.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised that the deceased was to be cremated. I didn&#8217;t know that cremation was practised by Christians. I inquired with fellow attendees, and they said its acceptable. It seems there&#8217;s a severe shortage of burial plots.<\/p>\n<p>I met Mr Ben twice, once at their home. He was a very nice and jovial person. Full of jokes and ably entertained us as a good host. We pray that his soul rests in peace and may God grant his family strength to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended a funeral ceremony of Then&#8217;s ex-colleague&#8217;s husband, Benjamin. He passed away suddenly due to heart attack on Friday early morning. The ceremony was held at Tamil Metodist Church, Brickfields. I was surprised that the deceased was to be cremated. I didn&#8217;t know that cremation was practised by Christians. I inquired with fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-was-here","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}