{"id":14638,"date":"2009-08-26T04:22:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/subsurface_deterioration_in_the_episcopal_diocese_of_upper_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T04:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T04:22:41","slug":"subsurface_deterioration_in_the_episcopal_diocese_of_upper_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14638","title":{"rendered":"Subsurface Deterioration in the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/24796\">Early I posted on the theme of subsurface deterioration in the Episcopal Church, and used the diocese of Lexington as an example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I recently posted David Keller&#8217;s comments about the struggles in the diocese of Upper South Carolina, I thought I would look at the numbers for that diocese.  According to the national statistics site church membership in Upper South Carolina went from 25,569 in 1997 to 26,087 in 2007, a gain of 2.0%. During the same ten year span, however, average Sunday attendance went from 9,278 to 8,439, a decline of 9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early I posted on the theme of subsurface deterioration in the Episcopal Church, and used the diocese of Lexington as an example. Since I recently posted David Keller&#8217;s comments about the struggles in the diocese of Upper South Carolina, I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14638\">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":[36,66,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638","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=14638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}