{"id":13821,"date":"2016-03-22T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13821"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:04:48","slug":"you-can-hire-professional-mourners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/you-can-hire-professional-mourners\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Hire Professional Mourners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Professional-Mourners.jpg\" alt=\"Professional Mourners\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Professional-Mourners.jpg 932w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Professional-Mourners-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Professional-Mourners-768x588.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The peer-less writers over at Cracked looked into the business of professional funeral mourners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Funerals are sad. Funerals where nobody shows up are even sadder. So family and friends may hire mourners.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to cry on demand is key. Preparing by watching movies like Titanic and Schindler&#8217;s List before the event can help.<\/li>\n<li>Some\u00a0women in the business\u00a0have been known to track their menstrual cycle to determine how difficult it will be to cry.<\/li>\n<li>Professional mourners have to come up with convincing back-stories to explain why they&#8217;re so distraught over an individual&#8217;s passing, but have never been seen before by most of the deceased&#8217;s acquaintances.<\/li>\n<li>The actors need to have a working understanding of how people from different religions and cultures commemorate their dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The full article is, as with most Cracked articles, quite entertaining. You should read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-1994-i-am-professional-mourner-6-realities-my-job.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-1994-i-am-professional-mourner-6-realities-my-job.html\">Cracked<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peer-less writers over at Cracked looked into the business of professional funeral mourners: Funerals are sad. Funerals where nobody shows up are even sadder. So family and friends may hire mourners. Being able to cry on demand is key. Preparing by watching movies like Titanic and Schindler&#8217;s List before the event can help. Some\u00a0women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Professional-Mourners.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13825,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13821\/revisions\/13825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}