{"id":375139,"date":"2010-03-01T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/funeral-set-for-seaworld-trainer-killed-by-orca"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:25:41","slug":"funeral-set-for-seaworld-trainer-killed-by-orca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375139","title":{"rendered":"Funeral set for SeaWorld trainer killed by orca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The funeral for a veteran SeaWorld trainer killed by one of the park&#8217;s orcas is set for a church on Chicago&#8217;s South Side.<\/p>\n<p>Services for 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau are planned for Monday at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel. Family and friends lined up for Brancheau&#8217;s wake on Sunday at the Chicago church.<\/p>\n<p>Brancheau died Wednesday in Florida after rubbing a 22-foot, 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum. <span id=\"more-21618\"><\/span>The animal grabbed her ponytail and pulled her into the water in front of about 20 spectators.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner says Brancheau likely died of traumatic injuries and drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Brancheau&#8217;s older sister has said the trainer loved the animals like children. Brancheau was married and didn&#8217;t have children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=362619&amp;src=143\" title=\"Funeral set for SeaWorld trainer killed by orca\" rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AcRNMLm6HN-iHMe_9JsxRY2mlGk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AcRNMLm6HN-iHMe_9JsxRY2mlGk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AcRNMLm6HN-iHMe_9JsxRY2mlGk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AcRNMLm6HN-iHMe_9JsxRY2mlGk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=bBGcJZ0fugo:EWoyd53y8Tc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=bBGcJZ0fugo:EWoyd53y8Tc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=bBGcJZ0fugo:EWoyd53y8Tc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=bBGcJZ0fugo:EWoyd53y8Tc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/bBGcJZ0fugo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral for a veteran SeaWorld trainer killed by one of the park&#8217;s orcas is set for a church on Chicago&#8217;s South Side. Services for 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau are planned for Monday at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel. Family and friends lined up for Brancheau&#8217;s wake on Sunday at the Chicago church. Brancheau died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}