{"id":1581,"date":"2010-05-14T22:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2010-05-14T22:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:09:36","slug":"on-thanatophobia-and-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/05\/14\/on-thanatophobia-and-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"LRB: On thanatophobia and Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first blog contribution to the London Review of Books Blog<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/anakana-schofield\/things-to-do-in-vancouver-whenyou\u2019redead\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1124\"> can be read here:<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/anakana-schofield\/things-to-do-in-vancouver-whenyou\u2019redead\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1124\">Things to Do in Vancouver When\u00a0You\u2019re\u00a0Dead<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>A Saturday morning, the first in my 40th year, I\u2019m at the Mountain View Cemetery for \u2018The Final Disposition Forum: De-Mystifying Death, Funerals, Cemeteries and Ceremonies\u2019. I\u2019ve come to face my fear of being buried in Vancouver, where I\u2019ve lived for the past decade. I arrive late, the film\u00a0<em>A Family Undertaking<\/em> has already started. On screen a set of cold-looking turned-out feet. The acoustics are terrible. But the feet are a good set, the ubiquitous final set. I am reassured, when my moment comes, I too will have a set of absolutely dead feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first blog contribution to the London Review of Books Blog can be read here: Things to Do in Vancouver When\u00a0You\u2019re\u00a0Dead A Saturday morning, the first in my 40th year, I\u2019m at the Mountain View Cemetery for \u2018The Final Disposition Forum: De-Mystifying Death, Funerals, Cemeteries and Ceremonies\u2019. I\u2019ve come to face my fear of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,56,57,95,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anakana-schofield","category-death","category-literature","category-london-review-of-books","category-thanatophobia","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}