{"id":37799,"date":"2021-09-09T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=37799?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-09-09T05:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:02:19","slug":"cremation-rate-higher-in-montana-than-most-states-20210908033821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/09\/09\/cremation-rate-higher-in-montana-than-most-states-20210908033821\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Cremation Rate Higher In  Montana Than Most States"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Montana State University Extension educators, Montana\u2019s cremation  rate is well above the national average. In 2020, 79 percent of people who died in the state were cremated. To address the rise in interest,  MSU Extension has released  a MontGuide on the topic.<br \/>\n\t  According to data from the National Funeral Directors Association, the U.S. cremation  rate was nearly 56 percent  in 2020,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37799"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=37799"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=37799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}