{"id":13740,"date":"2016-03-03T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2016-03-02T23:42:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T04:42:52","slug":"amazon-japan-is-selling-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/amazon-japan-is-selling-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Japan Is Selling Monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030316_0439_AmazonJapan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steve Mollman wrote about Amazon&#8217;s monk delivery service:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the death of a loved one, finding a monk to administer the last rites is an administrative burden surviving family members can do without.<\/li>\n<li>People are often gouged \u2013 being charged as much as \u00a5100,000 ($830) or more for a monk&#8217;s services, as they&#8217;re probably not in a place to start price shopping.<\/li>\n<li>Enter Amazon which is offering a monk, and a donation, for \u00a535,000 ($300). Free shipping is, of course, included.<\/li>\n<li>Additional services \u2013 such as giving the deceased a posthumous name \u2013 important in certain strains of Buddhism, cost extra.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the biggest fans of the platform are monks who are pleased that they no longer have to go through temples to find clients.<\/li>\n<li>The temples themselves \u2013 many of which were already struggling to stay in business &#8211; are less happy about this development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/606814\/amazon-japan-is-now-offering-budget-friendly-monk-delivery\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/606814\/amazon-japan-is-now-offering-budget-friendly-monk-delivery\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Mollman wrote about Amazon&#8217;s monk delivery service: After the death of a loved one, finding a monk to administer the last rites is an administrative burden surviving family members can do without. People are often gouged \u2013 being charged as much as \u00a5100,000 ($830) or more for a monk&#8217;s services, as they&#8217;re probably not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030316_0439_AmazonJapan1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13743,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions\/13743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}