{"id":1521,"date":"2007-08-24T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/historic_texas_episcopal_church_building_threatened_with_demolition\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T01:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T01:42:00","slug":"historic_texas_episcopal_church_building_threatened_with_demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Historic Texas Episcopal Church Building threatened with demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest church in Bell County may not be standing too much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The stones at St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Belton are cracked and broken, and the 130-year-old church could be on the verge of being destroyed. &#8220;Old St. Luke&#8217;s&#8221; has been condemned by the city of Belton and its days are numbered.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Fletcher was baptized in this church when he was three years old. He runs his grandfather&#8217;s antique shop in Salado and is part of the group of people trying desperately to save it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to find a way to save it. It&#8217;s part of that heritage from the early thread of Christianity and if it somehow can be saved, we should attempt it,&#8221; Fletcher said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/headlines\/?ArID=190783&#038;SecID=2\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest church in Bell County may not be standing too much longer. The stones at St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Belton are cracked and broken, and the 130-year-old church could be on the verge of being destroyed. &#8220;Old St.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1521\">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":[36,48,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}