{"id":679117,"date":"2010-03-01T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5482845"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:20:00","slug":"the-many-advantages-of-a-400000-cellphone-equipped-gold-coffin-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/679117","title":{"rendered":"The Many Advantages of a $400,000 Cellphone-Equipped Gold Coffin [Wealth]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/coffincellphone.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_coffincellphone.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/><\/a>At first blush, you might look at this $381,000 <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #goldcoffin\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/goldcoffin\/\">gold coffin<\/a> that comes with a cellphone and think: what a hopelessly tacky waste of money. You&#8217;d be <em>so wrong<\/em>. Here&#8217;s just a few benefits:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Get back at ne&#8217;er-do-well next of kin by blowing $381,000 of their inheritance money <em>on a coffin<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u2022 Make outgoing calls in case of accidental burial (hope it&#8217;s Verizon).<br \/>\n\u2022 Gold gives your pallbearers a much better workout than mahogany, or a pile of ashes.<br \/>\n\u2022 GPS-equipped phone makes tracking down grave robbers a cinch.<br \/>\n\u2022 Be the envy of your fellow undead during the inevitable zombie uprising.<\/p>\n<p>See? Now don&#8217;t everyone rush out to get one. I&#8217;m sure there are plenty enough to go around. 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You&#8217;d be so wrong. Here&#8217;s just a few benefits: \u2022 Get back at ne&#8217;er-do-well next of kin by blowing $381,000 of their inheritance money on a coffin. \u2022 Make outgoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QFv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}