{"id":1292,"date":"2010-01-13T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/disturbing-mental-image-du-jour"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:37:01","slug":"disturbing-mental-image-du-jour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/disturbing-mental-image-du-jour","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Mental Image du Jour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The date on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/34226560\/for\/cnbc\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> is Dec 1 but it was only recently brought to my (actually Tracie&#8217;s) attention. It&#8217;s about liquefying corpses as a &#8220;green&#8221; alternative to cremation. To quote the juicy part, so to speak:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In alkaline hydrolysis the body is submerged in water in a stainless steel chamber. Heat, pressure and potassium hydroxide, chemicals used to make soap and bleach, are added to dissolve the tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours later all that&#8217;s left is some bone residue and a syrupy brown liquid that is flushed down the drain. The bones can be crushed and returned to the family as with cremation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president of the company acknowledges that &#8220;the &#8216;ick&#8217; factor&#8221; is something of a barrier to the popularity of this technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date on this article is Dec 1 but it was only recently brought to my (actually Tracie&#8217;s) attention. It&#8217;s about liquefying corpses as a &#8220;green&#8221; alternative to cremation. To quote the juicy part, so to speak: In alkaline hydrolysis the body is submerged in water in a stainless steel chamber. Heat, pressure and potassium&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/disturbing-mental-image-du-jour\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disturbing Mental Image du Jour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}