{"id":78558,"date":"2025-08-14T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78558"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:59:39","slug":"criticism-of-burial-fat-tax-at-council-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/criticism-of-burial-fat-tax-at-council-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of burial &#8216;fat tax&#8217; at council cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/6ce7\/live\/6a21dae0-6d45-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg\" alt=\"A cemetery in Tettenhall Wolverhampton. There are rows and rows of headstones marking graves and trees in the background. There is a sawn tree stump in the foreground. \" width=\"628\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The introduction by a council of a so-called &#8220;fat tax&#8221; for wider burial plots at one of its cemeteries has been criticised by residents and a funeral director.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gzx347z4vo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The introduction by a council of a so-called &#8220;fat tax&#8221; for wider burial plots at one of its cemeteries has been criticised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/funeral-parlour.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78559,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78558\/revisions\/78559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}