{"id":27,"date":"2003-01-01T01:29:30","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:36:44","slug":"when-i-die-please-wear-me-on-your-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2003\/01\/when-i-die-please-wear-me-on-your-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Die, Please Wear Me On Your Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Well heck, if it only costs about as much as a funeral anyway&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The cremated remains of 80-year-old Edna MacArthur from Alberta have been presented to her family in the form of a diamond stone, the first delivery of this kind in the world, a funeral services official claimed Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Crawford said MacArthur&#8217;s remains were compressed into a 3-gram sample and flown to Italy where an Italian firm uses intense heat to incorporate the remains into carbon used to craft a diamond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 1\/4-carat diamond was presented Monday to MacArthur&#8217;s granddaughter, Tracey Somerville, and Tracey&#8217;s mother, Teresa, who used to keep the cremation urn in their living room, Crawford said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<ul>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/WORLD\/americas\/12\/31\/offbeat.canada.diamond.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com - Family turns grandma into diamond - Dec. 31, 2002<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well heck, if it only costs about as much as a funeral anyway&#8230;. The cremated remains of 80-year-old Edna MacArthur from Alberta have been presented to her family in the form of a diamond stone, the first delivery of this kind in the world, a funeral services official claimed Tuesday. Crawford said MacArthur&#8217;s remains were &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}