{"id":7482,"date":"2003-12-21T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/12\/21\/no-drinking-in-the-mourning-say-priests\/"},"modified":"2003-12-21T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2003-12-21T21:39:25","slug":"no-drinking-in-the-mourning-say-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/12\/no-drinking-in-the-mourning-say-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"No drinking in the mourning, say priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Downing pints of beer and telling blue jokes at funeral services will no longer be tolerated by Roman Catholic priests in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In a move aimed at halting the growing trend towards &#8220;a la carte&#8221; funerals, mourners have been warned against placing photographs and football shirts on coffins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The worst examples of inappropriate behaviour during services that have been cited by priests included the drinking of cans of beer in memory of the deceased during one eulogy, and a display of women&#8217;s underwear on a coffin on another occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">One eulogy was even delivered in the style of a best man&#8217;s speech, complete with risque jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">But now the National Centre for Liturgy, which looks after church rituals, has announced moves to curb such irreligious behaviour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Its spokesman, Father Patrick Jones, said the guidelines were intended to promote best practice rather than tell relatives how to grieve.<br \/> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/12\/21\/1071941613002.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing pints of beer and telling blue jokes at funeral services will no longer be tolerated by Roman Catholic priests in Ireland. In a move aimed at halting the growing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}