{"id":2751,"date":"2010-08-30T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2010-08-30T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:12:00","slug":"memento_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Memento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any particularly strong feelings on what happens to my body once I die. After all, I&#8217;ll be dead. Donating myself to science is one option. I&#8217;d probably make a really memorable dissection for some unsuspectingly med student. Or I could have my ashes scattered in some faraway place (or maybe just onto the street below my window). But then I discovered that it&#8217;s possible to have one&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/08\/30\/your-cremated-ashes.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">cremated remains pressed into vinyl records<\/a> with a personalized selection of tracks. Custom artwork is extra, but I&#8217;m sure my loved ones would be willing to put up some additional cash to remember me properly. But I&#8217;m going to state explicitly that the cover art better not feature anything resembling roses, skulls, or paisley. Tasteful nudity, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable and tacitly encouraged. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better get to work on my playlist. Hmm, should I start with Blue Oyster Cult&#8217;s &#8220;(Don&#8217;t Fear) The Reaper&#8221; or Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221;?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any particularly strong feelings on what happens to my body once I die. After all, I&#8217;ll be dead. Donating myself to science is one option. I&#8217;d probably make a really memorable dissection for some unsuspectingly med student. Or I could have my ashes scattered in some faraway place (or maybe just onto <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2751' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}