{"id":17,"date":"2007-07-11T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/2007\/07\/11\/bubbling-well-26-years-on\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T23:10:28","slug":"bubbling-well-26-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/2007\/07\/11\/bubbling-well-26-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubbling Well 26 Years On&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about what the Harberts family is up to now, I did some searching around the web. The best source I could find was <a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.51.104\/search?q=cache:ICsE3HopHN8J:www.metroactive.com\/bohemian\/05.31.06\/bubbling-well-0622.html+%22dan+harberts%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=15&amp;gl=us\">this article<\/a> about Bubbling Well. Here are some tidbits I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p>-Cal Harberts passed away five years ago. (No word on whether he was buried in a giant, Styrofoam carry-out box.) Dan Harberts, the youngest son, is now the owner and president of the company. He lives with his wife in a house on cemetery grounds. His mom is still alive and devious.<\/p>\n<p>-Only 1 percent of Bubbling Well&#8217;s business is private burial. The rest is cremation services.<\/p>\n<p>-Since it was established in 1971, Bubbling Well has cared for the final oversight of almost 11,000 pets<\/p>\n<p>-Having a pet interred there isn&#8217;t cheap. On average it costs $570 to bury a small pet there, with a $50 yearly fee to keep it from being exhumed and cremated.  According to the article, Bubbling well has yet to do this despite some delinquent balances of 20+ years.<\/p>\n<p>The article didn&#8217;t mention what became of Dan&#8217;s Brother.  Though it&#8217;s pretty clear that Dan has become every bit as good of a philosopher salesman as his old man was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Later Harberts reflects, &#8220;People bury people because they have to, but they bury pets because they want to. We&#8217;re proof that the relationships between people and their pets are truly special. With people, there are complications and conditions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With pets, it&#8217;s a pure emotion.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about what the Harberts family is up to now, I did some searching around the web. The best source I could find was this article about Bubbling Well. Here are some tidbits I found interesting. -Cal Harberts passed away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/2007\/07\/11\/bubbling-well-26-years-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}