{"id":34622,"date":"2017-02-16T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/local-funeral-home-offers-drive-thru-visitation-for-families-of-the-dearly-departed"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:57","slug":"local-funeral-home-offers-drive-thru-visitation-for-families-of-the-dearly-departed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/local-funeral-home-offers-drive-thru-visitation-for-families-of-the-dearly-departed","title":{"rendered":"Local Funeral Home Offers Drive-Thru Visitation For Families Of The Dearly Departed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/local-funeral-home-offers-drive-thru-visitation-for-families-of-the-dearly-departed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My niece shared this with me; and the 1st thing of course that came to mind was VR\/ AR funerals\/ ceremonials as so many including myself cannot always be there doesn\u2019t mean we could not engage\/ participate in an event like a funneral or wedding. Maybe marriage via VR is a business just like a funeral via VR could be.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. <a href=\"http:\/\/(localmemphis.com\">(localmemphis.com<\/a>) \u2014 A funeral home off Lamar Avenue is offering a different service from its competitors. You can drive up, say your final goodbyes to your loved ones, and you don\u2019t even have to get out the car.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Bernard, owner of R. Bernard funeral home, says he got the idea from a funeral home in California. His main goal is to make it more convenient for families who are already dealing with losing a loved one.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard wants his funeral home to stand out from the rest, so his family business is offering drive-thru services.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/news\/local-news\/local-funeral-home-offers-drive-thru-visitation-for-families-of-the-dearly-departed\/655581707\">http:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/news\/local-news\/local-funeral-ho...\/655581707<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece shared this with me; and the 1st thing of course that came to mind was VR\/ AR funerals\/ ceremonials as so many including myself cannot always be there doesn\u2019t mean we could not engage\/ participate in an event like a funneral or wedding. Maybe marriage via VR is a business just like a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43,1491,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business","category-transportation","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48838,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34622\/revisions\/48838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}