{"id":29336,"date":"2016-04-01T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=29336"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T17:32:16","slug":"garry-shandling-to-have-buddhist-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/garry-shandling-to-have-buddhist-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Shandling to have Buddhist funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Garry Shandling, the award-winning American Jewish comedian who died last week at 66, will have a Buddhist funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The service, which Shandling had arranged secretly, will take place next month, TMZ reported. The cause of his March 24 death is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>According to the celebrity gossip site, \u201cHe was never very vocal about it, but Garry was a devout Buddhist \u2026\u201d<br \/>\nShandling, who the Forward eulogized last week as &#8220;one of the greatest Jewish comedians ever,&#8221; said in a 2011 interview with GQ that he had been a practicing Buddhist since he was in his 20s.<\/p>\n<p>During the elaborate funeral service, \u201cThe Garry Shandling Show\u201d star will be ordained as a Buddhist monk by having his head symbolically shaven by another monk, and while a monk leads a chant, the guests will light incense.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ said it is not known whether Shandling will be buried or cremated.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Garry%20Shandling%20to%20have%20Buddhist%20funeral\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[7758,7745,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29337,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336\/revisions\/29337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}