{"id":147653,"date":"2026-09-30T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147653"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:54:44","slug":"bbc-race-to-save-coventry-cathedral-ruins-as-campaign-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147653","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Race to save Coventry Cathedral ruins as campaign launches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A global campaign has been launched to raise money to protect the &#8220;at-risk&#8221; cathedral ruins in Coventry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original medieval Cathedral of St Michael was built between the late 14th and 15th centuries, but nearly 500 years later, it was destroyed during the Coventry blitz in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cathedral leaders said the ruins were never designed to be exposed to the elements and that both the remains and the spire were beginning to deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6zxzvn5k8x4o\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Race to save cathedral ruins as campaign launches <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DIjcaLt0Ui\">https:\/\/t.co\/DIjcaLt0Ui<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Midlands (@bbcmtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbcmtd\/status\/2104959537052524823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global campaign has been launched to raise money to protect the &#8220;at-risk&#8221; cathedral ruins in Coventry. The original medieval Cathedral of St Michael was built between the late 14th and 15th centuries, but nearly 500 years later, it was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147653\">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":[389,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147653","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=147653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147656,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147653\/revisions\/147656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}