{"id":13078,"date":"2009-05-30T01:31:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T01:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/arizona_churches_strategize_to_lessen_parishioners_financial_woes\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T01:31:27","slug":"arizona_churches_strategize_to_lessen_parishioners_financial_woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13078","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Churches strategize to lessen parishioners&#39; financial woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W. Nicholas Knisely arrived in Phoenix three years ago to serve as dean of Trinity Cathedral downtown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came from Pennsylvania,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The housing market was just starting to go bust. I thought, &#8216;Well, I know what to do.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So he has tightened the belt of the Episcopal church. Although Trinity Cathedral isn&#8217;t hurting, the coffer&#8217;s growth has stagnated.<\/p>\n<p>The church now relies more on its congregation. Members are doing paint jobs that in the past would have been done by professionals. The same goes with mechanical repairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/arizonaliving\/articles\/2009\/05\/25\/20090525churchhelp0525.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. Nicholas Knisely arrived in Phoenix three years ago to serve as dean of Trinity Cathedral downtown. &#8220;I came from Pennsylvania,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The housing market was just starting to go bust. I thought, &#8216;Well, I know what to do.&#8217;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13078\">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":[36,40,149,66,380,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-parishes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078","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=13078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}