{"id":13012,"date":"2009-05-26T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/beach_town_churches_attendance_comes_in_waves\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T15:00:59","slug":"beach_town_churches_attendance_comes_in_waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13012","title":{"rendered":"Beach Town Churches&#39; Attendance Comes in Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Mik Megary watched the clock in the elementary school gym tick to 9 o&#8217;clock. The Fellowship Alliance Church&#8217;s Sunday service was supposed to begin, but the two dozen folding chairs, carefully arranged into three rows, were empty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really embarrassing,&#8221; said Megary, a special education teacher who started the Christian missionary church in Ocean Pines seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The church usually attracts about 10 people each week during winter and as many as 40 in summer, but Memorial Day weekend posed a challenge: A few of the regulars were out of town, and no tourists ventured over the Route 90 bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/24\/AR2009052402868_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Mik Megary watched the clock in the elementary school gym tick to 9 o&#8217;clock. The Fellowship Alliance Church&#8217;s Sunday service was supposed to begin, but the two dozen folding chairs, carefully arranged into three rows, were empty. &#8220;This is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13012\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}