{"id":18198,"date":"2010-03-01T18:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/oklahoma_city_episcopal_church_glad_to_get_room_to_expand\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:02:44","slug":"oklahoma_city_episcopal_church_glad_to_get_room_to_expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18198","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Episcopal church glad to get room to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing Hispanic congregation in south Oklahoma City recently moved from cramped quarters to a larger church building.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesia Episcopal Santa Maria Virgen, led by the Rev. Leonel Blanco Monterroso, held its first worship service in its new home Feb. 7. The building at 5500 S Western formerly housed Grace Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n<p>Monterroso said the sanctuary at the church\u2019s previous building at 2141 SW 25 could house no more than 200 people, while the new building\u2019s worship area easily accommodates about 500.<\/p>\n<p>The larger complex came at just the right time, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Monterroso said the church\u2019s first service in the new building drew about 585 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsok.com\/oklahoma-city-episcopal-church-glad-to-get-room-to-expand\/article\/3442419?custom_click=lead_story_title\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing Hispanic congregation in south Oklahoma City recently moved from cramped quarters to a larger church building. Iglesia Episcopal Santa Maria Virgen, led by the Rev. Leonel Blanco Monterroso, held its first worship service in its new home Feb.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18198\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198","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=18198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}