{"id":2786,"date":"2016-04-17T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/a-kid-apparently-designed-a-funeral-home-ad-and-its-darkly-hilarious\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T15:49:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:49:45","slug":"a-kid-apparently-designed-a-funeral-home-ad-and-its-darkly-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/a-kid-apparently-designed-a-funeral-home-ad-and-its-darkly-hilarious\/","title":{"rendered":"A kid apparently designed a funeral home ad, and it&#039;s darkly hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screen_shot_2016-04-16_at_2.11.44_pm\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE2L2RiL1NjcmVlbl9TaG90LjY3M2U1LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/0fbc3843\/826\/Screen_Shot_2016-04-16_at_2.11.44_PM.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=A+kid+apparently+designed+a+funeral+home+ad%2C+and+it%27s+darkly+hilarious&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F16%2Fkid-funeral-home-ad%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F16%2Fkid-funeral-home-ad%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Funeral home advertising: maybe not the best art project for children.<\/p>\n<p>According to Redditor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/joshuar9476\">joshuar9476<\/a>, Gilliland and Howe Funeral Home in Greensburg, Indiana asked kids to design their very own ads for the business. Why? We are not sure.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/15\/donut-health-sign\/\">Health poster clearly underestimates your love of mini donuts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The results, which involve a reanimated corpse singing the business&#8217;s praises while an onlooker wonders why it is alive, are equal parts hilarious and macabre.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE2L2RiL1NjcmVlbl9TaG90LjNmZjU5LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXg0MDk2Pg\/f9d25dca\/6fd\/Screen_Shot_2016-04-16_at_4.47.28_PM.png\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Image:  <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/3ksKAtI\">reddit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Several typically skeptical Redditors have expressed disbelief that the image was actually drawn by a kid. After all, what town would let children advertise for a funeral home?<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/16\/kid-funeral-home-ad\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/kids\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kids<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/imgur\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Imgur<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/reddit\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Reddit<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460876218' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460876218'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/Dv34uzqn_18\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral home advertising: maybe not the best art project for children. According to Redditor joshuar9476, Gilliland and Howe Funeral Home in Greensburg, Indiana asked kids to design their very own ads for the business. Why? We are not sure. SEE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/a-kid-apparently-designed-a-funeral-home-ad-and-its-darkly-hilarious\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1757,1082,1512,735],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-imgur","tag-kids","tag-reddit","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}